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.)
Not easy to read. North's work is to build a systematic theory of institution and institutional change, but the theory he built is quite rough, lots of important concepts are used without careful exam...Not easy to read. North's work is to build a systematic theory of institution and institutional change, but the theory he built is quite rough, lots of important concepts are used without careful examinations, the causal effects between institution and organization are mutual, the institutionalism is actually inner contradictory to the neoclassic. (展开)
the current political, economic, and military organizations and their maximizing directions are derived from an opportunity set provided by the institutional structure that in turn evolved incremental...the current political, economic, and military organizations and their maximizing directions are derived from an opportunity set provided by the institutional structure that in turn evolved incrementally. (展开)
快速通读 言简意赅 结构精美 太经典了 Long-run economic change is the cumulative consequence of innumerable short-run decisions by political and economic entrepreneurs that both directly and indirectly shape performanc...快速通读 言简意赅 结构精美 太经典了 Long-run economic change is the cumulative consequence of innumerable short-run decisions by political and economic entrepreneurs that both directly and indirectly shape performance. Specific short-run paths are unforeseeable, the overall direction in the long run is both more predictable and more difficult to reverse(展开)
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0 有用 [已注销] 2010-12-23 18:57:46
为我增加了一种理解世界的方式。
1 有用 Sisyphus 2013-02-27 20:05:31
Not easy to read. North's work is to build a systematic theory of institution and institutional change, but the theory he built is quite rough, lots of important concepts are used without careful exam... Not easy to read. North's work is to build a systematic theory of institution and institutional change, but the theory he built is quite rough, lots of important concepts are used without careful examinations, the causal effects between institution and organization are mutual, the institutionalism is actually inner contradictory to the neoclassic. (展开)
0 有用 ca7thy 2019-08-03 07:39:38
the current political, economic, and military organizations and their maximizing directions are derived from an opportunity set provided by the institutional structure that in turn evolved incremental... the current political, economic, and military organizations and their maximizing directions are derived from an opportunity set provided by the institutional structure that in turn evolved incrementally. (展开)
0 有用 澈之 2022-02-21 11:22:22
快速通读 言简意赅 结构精美 太经典了 Long-run economic change is the cumulative consequence of innumerable short-run decisions by political and economic entrepreneurs that both directly and indirectly shape performanc... 快速通读 言简意赅 结构精美 太经典了 Long-run economic change is the cumulative consequence of innumerable short-run decisions by political and economic entrepreneurs that both directly and indirectly shape performance. Specific short-run paths are unforeseeable, the overall direction in the long run is both more predictable and more difficult to reverse (展开)
0 有用 帕格尼尼说不难 2023-01-16 13:26:03 湖南
LD上课的文献。最开始看的时候还是Yu扫描的部分章节，上面的横线、纵线不断，已经可以猜出来Yu对North的欣赏。想来我自己看的时候完全没意识到自己在读的是什么“新制度经济学”的经典之作。像个傻子那样只顾着欣赏North文风的明白晓畅和他理论的“符合直觉”。Mark一下提醒自己之后要刷完全本。
0 有用 Dean Zhao 2024-03-04 17:01:08 上海
高开低走的阅读体验，演绎的过程读的很舒服，主要的贡献是从现实的不均衡性出发，把交易成本纳入新古典经济学的交易模型中，从而引入新制度主义的视角。诺思最大的亮点在于将制度视为决定社会交易成本的因素，从人的不完全理性出发论证制度存在的必要性。诺思展示了制度的内在稳定性和自我正反馈的机制，但是在解释制度变迁和有效率的制度何以形成的问题上，始终给不出一个完整的回答。
0 有用 Rex 2023-11-24 13:27:25 北京
"Principles of Politics"
0 有用 Hector 2023-09-29 08:47:17 美国
基本上是用交易成本理论串起人，组织，制度，并且从一种制度变革的视角来讲述一种历史的趋势。论证严谨，短小精悍，要说问题主要就在于一种大理论常有的“历史决定论”的味道，逃不开的商人-企业家（经济人）的视角（虽然诺斯终于承认了非持续性变革的存在），以及博弈论对世界的合作环境太乐观了吧。
0 有用 Seeway 2023-08-25 10:00:41 加拿大
最近要写个book proposal，回来读读制度经济学经典。没有压力的读书真开心。
0 有用 舞雩@屋卫东 2023-06-22 12:52:43 天津
经典。