《中华人民共和国合同法》的颁布,并未使法学界围绕合同法之价值定位与起草模式的争论宣告结束,而是更加激烈和尖锐了。从经济分析的角度探讨合同法的经济意义,特别是其在节约当事人交易成本、分摊合同风险等方面的功能,研究不完全合同的经济学解释及如何设计最合乎效率的合同规范有着极为深刻的意义。

The promulgation of the Contract Law of P.R.C. dose not quiet down the argument about the value location and the drafting model of the Contract Law of P.R.C. in the law field, and actually, it makes that argument more intense and acute. On the view of economic analysis, this article probes into the economic significance of contract law, especially its functions in saving the transaction costs of litigants, sharing the risk of contracts and so on. Furthermore, this article proposes the view about the economics explanation of incomplete contracts and how to disign the most efficient contract norms.