In 1937, American economist Robert coase (R. H. Coase's publication of the essence of the enterprise is considered to be the beginning of a discussion on this issue. In the face of market failure, coase has given the opposite answer: external-utility problems can be solved by explicitly using the market, without government intervention. And zhang wuchang is more absolute, he said that there is no so-called external utility, there is only unclear property rights. Anyway, coase brought revolutionary innovation to market concepts. He made it clear that the key to the market was not the "price mechanism" of impersonal machinery, but the power of participants in economic activity.