Continuing his groundbreaking analysis of economic structures, Douglass North develops an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies, both at a given time and over time. Institutions exist, he argues, due to the uncertainties involved in human interaction; they are the constraints devised to st...
Continuing his groundbreaking analysis of economic structures, Douglass North develops an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies, both at a given time and over time. Institutions exist, he argues, due to the uncertainties involved in human interaction; they are the constraints devised to structure that interaction. Yet, institutions vary widely in their consequences for economic performance; some economies develop institutions that produce growth and development, while others develop institutions that produce stagnation. North first explores the nature of institutions and explains the role of transaction and production costs in their development. The second part of the book deals with institutional change. Institutions create the incentive structure in an economy, and organisations will be created to take advantage of the opportunities provided within a given institutional framework. North argues that the kinds of skills and knowledge fostered by the structure of an economy will shape the direction of change and gradually alter the institutional framework. He then explains how institutional development may lead to a path-dependent pattern of development. In the final part of the book, North explains the implications of this analysis for economic theory and economic history. He indicates how institutional analysis must be incorporated into neo-classical theory and explores the potential for the construction of a dynamic theory of long-term economic change.
作者简介
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Douglass C. North is Director of the Center of Political Economy and Professor of Economics and History at Washington University in St. Louis. He is a past president of the Economic History Association and Western Economics Association and a Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has written over sixty articles for a variety of journals and is the author of The Rise ...
Douglass C. North is Director of the Center of Political Economy and Professor of Economics and History at Washington University in St. Louis. He is a past president of the Economic History Association and Western Economics Association and a Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has written over sixty articles for a variety of journals and is the author of The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History (CUP, 1973, with R.P. Thomas) and Structure and Change in Economic History (Norton, 1981). Professor North is included in Great Economists Since Keynes edited by M. Blaug (CUP, 1988 paperback ed.)
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0 有用 summer sunset 2013-07-23 20:55:44
制度是一个社会的博弈规则。很有启发的名著，大一时没付出太多努力低空飞过的Economic History现在越来越觉得后悔。
0 有用 纽纽特 2019-09-09 13:34:05
Chapters 1 and 12.
1 有用 Mr. L 2014-12-05 13:32:01
上次读还是自己的智识停留在柏拉图和亚里士多德的时候，想必那时问教授的问题很让他困惑。。制度理论是自由主义，马克思主义，社会资本主义三大范式的折中。这三种范式几乎在同一时间意识到对社会的理解离不开制度。诺斯大致出身自由主义制度学范式。制度决定游戏规则，组织在既定游戏规则框架内博弈。组织根据经济和政治影响力大小试图改变正式制度亦即重塑游戏规则，而制度的存在使权力的变迁无法太迅速地呈现，因此保证了社会系... 上次读还是自己的智识停留在柏拉图和亚里士多德的时候，想必那时问教授的问题很让他困惑。。制度理论是自由主义，马克思主义，社会资本主义三大范式的折中。这三种范式几乎在同一时间意识到对社会的理解离不开制度。诺斯大致出身自由主义制度学范式。制度决定游戏规则，组织在既定游戏规则框架内博弈。组织根据经济和政治影响力大小试图改变正式制度亦即重塑游戏规则，而制度的存在使权力的变迁无法太迅速地呈现，因此保证了社会系统的相对稳定。非正式制度的使用对发展理论很有益(参见Ostrom etc)。外生冲击试图改变正式制度时非正式制度（包括既存行为）常加以阻挠；而外来参与者进入制度中后其行为与偏好也常被制度重塑或改变。科技和创新很大程度受制度影响，因此制度可能影响国家经济发展。但无制度起源的探寻，这大概是A&J的头功。 (展开)
0 有用 言蹊 2011-10-18 00:52:22
看过好久了吧！
0 有用 棱镜 2021-06-21 23:36:54
Pretty concise.