根据科斯定理,不存在交易费用也许会使法律无关紧要。然而,现实的情形却是,正是存在交易费用导致了人们在许多情况下有意不理睬法律。比如埃利克森在其《无需法律的秩序——邻人如何解决纠纷》中写道,在美国加州夏斯塔县的相邻牧区之间出现牲畜越界事件时,受损一方常常并不是立 According to Coase Theorem, the absence of transaction costs may make law irrelevant. However, the reality is that it is precisely the existence of transaction costs that has led people to inadvertently ignore the law in many cases. Ellickson, for example, in his book, “Legal Neutrality - How Neighbors Treat Disputes,” wrote that in the event of livestock cross-border incidents between neighboring pastoralties in the county of Shasta, California, the injured party is often not at stake