[摘要]近年来,国家对“三农”问题越来越重视。然而,在国家政策导向日趋明显,要求不断提高的同时,我国的农业保险发展却相对缓慢。这样,一方面,农业经营的规模化、商品化、市场化以及自然灾害的客观存在,形成了对农业保险巨大的市场需求;另一方面,农业保险业务供给严重不足,致使农业保险市场供求严重失衡。本文从经济学原理的角度揭示我国农业保险市场出现当前状况的原因,以及农业保险的公共性、外部性对其影响,并探索通过政府补贴的形式提供改善方案。 [关键词]农业保险;公共性;外部性;经济分析 [中图分类号] F840.6 [文献标识码] A [文章编号]1004-3306(2007)08-0036-03 Abstract: The central government has been paying increasingly more attention to the issue of “agriculture, rural areas and farmers” in recent years. However, while the national policy have become more and more supportive, the development of China’s agricultural insurance is still quite slow. On the one hand, the increasing scale of agricultural operation, its commercialization and market orientation, and the existence of natural disasters have lead to tremendous demands for agricultural insurance. On the other hand, agricultural insurance supply is seriously short of demands, giving rise to the problem of imbalance between supply and demand in agricultural insurance market. This paper analyzes the causes of the current situation in China’s agricultural insurance market from the economics perspective, points out the impacts of agricultural insurance due to its nature of public interest communality and externality, and suggests to improve the situation through government subsidies. Key words:agricultural insurance; communality; externality; economic analysis