Understanding the Process of Economic Change

道格拉斯•诺思 1993年的诺贝尔经济学奖获得者，圣•路易斯华盛顿大学艺术与科学学院的经济学教授与斯宾塞•俄林教授，胡佛研究所的巴特利特•博纳普高级研究员。著有《经济史上的结构与变迁》、《制度、制度变迁与经济绩效》等。

出版者:Princeton University Press

作者:Douglass C. North

页数:208

出版时间:2005-1-23

价格:USD 45.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780691118055

图书标签:经济学economicshistory经济史經濟學制度经济学制度美國

In this landmark work, a Nobel Prize-winning economist develops a new way of understanding the process by which economies change. Douglass North inspired a revolution in economic history a generation ago by demonstrating that economic performance is determined largely by the kind and quality of institutions that support markets. As he showed in two now classic books that inspired the New Institutional Economics (today a subfield of economics), property rights and transaction costs are fundamental determinants. Here, North explains how different societies arrive at the institutional infrastructure that greatly determines their economic trajectories. North argues that economic change depends largely on 'adaptive efficiency,' a society's effectiveness in creating institutions that are productive, stable, fair, and broadly accepted - and, importantly, flexible enough to be changed or replaced in response to political and economic feedback.While adhering to his earlier definition of institutions as the formal and informal rules that constrain human economic behavior, he extends his analysis to explore the deeper determinants of how these rules evolve and how economies change. Drawing on recent work by psychologists, he identifies intentionality as the crucial variable and proceeds to demonstrate how intentionality emerges as the product of social learning and how it then shapes the economy's institutional foundations and thus its capacity to adapt to changing circumstances. "Understanding the Process of Economic Change" accounts not only for past institutional change but also for the diverse performance of present-day economies. This major work is therefore also an essential guide to improving the performance of developing countries.

读后感

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用户评价

奇怪奇怪，North这本最新的著作为什么引用率集中在欧洲，而institutiaonl entrepreneurship的学者似乎都没有注意到这本书。

4.5 大师泡澡时写的

4.5 大师泡澡时写的

4.5 大师泡澡时写的

我读到最后一页都没有understand the process of economic change，怎么写十页review啊，醉了。