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Study On The Price Mechanism Of Software Products

Posted on:2004-10-16Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:W S WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1116360092491364Subject:Industrial Economics
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The theory of price mechanism of intangible products, especially the products of science and technology, is the frontier field that many theory problems still have not been solved well. It become more complication and more urgent to resolve in pace with the industrials of computer and communication develop quickly and information and network become more and more important in economy. How does the price mechanism of software products that are regard the core of the new economy work? How to use the price mechanism theory to interpret the phenomenon of the new economy that take place in the software process of production and consume, for example, the positive feedback, the consume lock-in, the standard monopoly, and so forth? And how to interpret the phenomenon that contradicts to the traditional economics, for instance, software piracy will heighten the network's value and the social welfare under some conditions? The paper just base these focus problems to research.Theory of price mechanism was the hottest research field in classic economics, but it become "cool" when A. Marshall who is the founder of neoclassic economics united the classic price mechanism theory. Marshall's price mechanism theory of equilibrium between supply and demand looked so perfect at the beginning that almost nobody will suspect its correctness for 40 years after it was published. Even the whole 20th century, the price mechanism theory research just concentrate to mend it, which is to form the neoclassic price mechanism theory. That is the cause that research level of price mechanism theory still stay at the level of neoclassic price mechanism theory, and Chinese level of it even stay at the level of the labor value theory in a high degree. The consequence is many price phenomenon could not be interpreted by the price mechanism theory. The paper change the traditional research formula allow for morass of the theory, research the price problems from a new angle which property rights exchange resting on contract instead of the traditional angle of goods exchange. Then, the paper establishes a general price mechanism theory on the base of the new economics theory; try to interpret the price mechanism of software products in line with the reality life.The paper researches the price mechanism of software products surround the nucleus proposition with the main analysis methods of the new economics and cost-value. There are six charters in the paper, the first charter is introduction which introduce the background of research, the basis of the research topic selection, the nucleus proposition, research methods,innovations and shortcomings; the second to sixth charter are the proper text of the paper, and it includes three segment, which the first one expounds and reviews the relative research, it includes the second charter; the second one is the basic theory innovation, it includes the third charter; the third one researches the price mechanism with the innovation theory, it includes the fourth, fifth and sixth charter. The main content of each charter and its important viewpoint is introduced as following.The second charter: first, it expounds and remarks the development of the traditional price mechanism theory from three stages. The first stage is people's knowledge about the price and value before Adam Smith, and it introduces that people recognized price and value only from the feeling and experience at that time, and actually it is price theory filled full with ethic and experienced feeling. The second stage is the theory of equilibrium between supply and demand come into being, it came through the labor value theory, the production cost theory and the subjective utility theory, and was united by A. Marshall who created the equilibrium theory which says the price is decided by the marginal equilibrium between the market supply and demand. The paper points out that the classic price theories development is bound to born the equilibrium theory. The third stage is the development of price theories after Marshall's equilibrium...
Keywords/Search Tags:software products, price mechanism, property rights, contract, transaction
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