自上个世纪末期以来,经济学家逐渐地对法治的研究倾注了极大的兴趣。他们不仅试图从经济学视角对法治重新进行定义,并且还通过大量实证研究,分析法治和经济之间的紧密关系。法治是以商品经济和市场经济为其经济基础的,市场经济构成了法治的基石。本文指出经济的发展离不开法治的推行,现代市场经济属于法治经济。 Since the end of the last century, economists have gradually devoted great interest in the study of the rule of law. They not only try to redefine the rule of law from an economic point of view, but also analyze the close relationship between the rule of law and the economy through a large amount of empirical research. The rule of law takes the commodity economy and the market economy as its economic foundation, and the market economy forms the cornerstone of the rule of law. This article points out that the development of economy can not be separated from the rule of law and the modern market economy belongs to the rule of law economy.