著名经济学家汪丁丁领衔主编，陆铭、黄先海、曹正汉、张静、丁利、叶航、景跃进、周濂、冯克利、史晋川等著名学者匿名评审，打造中国政治经济学最强阵地。
《新政治经济学评论》是著名经济学家汪丁丁教授主编的政治经济学专业学术论文集。文集本着“新”政治经济学的理念，结合了新政治学与古典经济学理论，研究多重价值的优化组合，挖掘理论对当下问题的解释能力。介绍国外新政治经济学的动态发展，并将之引入到中国的背景之中，针对当下的政治经济问题，进行具体的评论与研究。
主编汪丁丁、编委成员陆铭、黄先海、曹正汉、张静、丁利、叶航、景跃进、周濂、冯克利、史晋川等，均为国内相关领域顶尖学者。通过匿名评审方式，每集遴选十篇文章。本文集为中国社会科学引文索引（CSSCI）来源集刊。
本期看点：以经济学视角论政府的性质、以文化演化理论解释哈耶克“自发秩序理论”，沿着甘贝塔黑手党产权保护理论，详述中国经济改革与“法外保护组织”的兴起。
中国经济改革与法外保护兴起
The Chinese Mafia: Private Protection in a Socialist Economy
Peng Wang
Abstract: The economic theory of the mafia created by Diego Gambetta defines a mafia group as a special type of organized crime group that specializes in producing, selling and distributing private protection. Nevertheless, Chinese scholars and western criminologists have very different understanding of the mafia. In order to avoid confusion, this paper proposes a new term ‘extra-legal protector(s)’which refers to an individual or a group of people specializing in the provision of private protection. Gambetta’s theoretical framework focuses on two important aspects directly relating to the birth and development of unlawful protectors, namely a demand for private protection and a supply of the same. In the Post-Mao era, China started its transition from a centrally controlled economy to a market-directed economy by adopting reform and opening-up policies. The widespread creation of property rights has exponentially enlarged the demand for protection. However, property rights are ambiguously defined in the Chinese legal system, and the state is unable and unwilling to provide efficient and sufficient law enforcement mechanisms for needy people because of the rampant corruption of government officials and the weak judicial system. In this case, street gangsters who are interested in the private provision of protection developed into an alternative enforcement mechanism for ‘securing’ property rights in China’s economic transition. The most important service offered by extra-legal protectors in China is not only to assist business enterprises in monopolizing the market, but also to assist local government in China’s economic reform.
Keywords: the Chinese mafia; extra-legal protection; private property; economic reforms
JEL分类号：B25；O11；P14
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★读懂中国经济，离不开发展中大国特征。读懂发展中大国特征，离不开中国的城乡间、地区间和中央-地方关系。我们需要能够读懂中国的“新政治经济学”。
——陆铭
★尽管仍旧难以避免盲人摸象，但是拥有越多的交叉学科视域，就越有可能逼近中国问题的真相。
——周濂
★越来越多的事实表明，中国研究需要超越单一学科的限制，进行整体分析。
——张静
★不必否认，现代学术研究对知识的细致划分为我们提供了类似于经济分工的好处。但了解社会的过程毕竟不同于车间里的生产线。当这种努力达到某个层面时，总会发现问题已超出了专业技术所能解决的范围，这时整合诸多学科而形成的知识体系，就变得尤其必要和可贵，恰如《蒙娜丽莎》的绘画技巧不能取代她那神秘的微笑一样。
——冯克利
★政治和经济是人类生活的两个核心领域；文明的使命于前者乃是驯化权力，于后者则是节制资本。在我的想象中，新政治经济学的使命，假若有的话，则在于如何将权力和资本用于实现人的美好生活。
——景跃进
★博而后专，穷而后工；知行合一，综合互动。
——丁利