Another reason for the lack of empirical measures of transaction
costs stems from the comparative-static nature of much of the theoretical
work. For the most part the approach is to identify, theoretically,
the effects of increasing or decreasing transaction costs. In that context
the central distinction is between situations in which transaction costs
(of whatever form) are high and situations in which they are low.2 This
is understandable, since the industrial organization literature is primarily
concerned with explaining alternative forms of organization and
one potential explanation is high (or low) transaction costs. Distinguishing
between high and low transaction costs, however, gives us no
guidelines when the problem of measuring the level of transaction costs
is addressed, and that is the problem we face.

另一个缺少有效衡量交易费用方法的原因是大部分的理论工作都是比较静态的。大部分是通过理论分析交易费用增加或减少所带来的影响。在这种情况下，主要区别在于交易费用在某些情况下是高的，而在另外一些情况下是低的。这是令人费解的，因为产业组织文献（literature 怎么翻译）主要关心组织结构的更替，而交易费用的高低是更替的一个潜在的解释。不管如何，当如何衡量交易费用水平的问题得到解决时，高或者低的交易费用并不能给我们带来任何指导，而这正是我们面对的问题。

大神们帮忙看看，最后一句话，我搞不清楚，到底是啥问题？。。为什么说解决了衡量交易费用水平的问题时，交易费用的高低不能给出任何的指导。我这个英语比较差，请求支援！