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.)
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.
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我看的是劉瑞華翻譯的版本,語言上來說要比這個版本好很多,這本書上承其《經濟史中的結構與變遷》,增加瞭非正式製度的分析維度,認為製度的變遷是與正式製度之間的互動的結果,對非正式製度的分析以意識形態為基礎,這本是解釋集體行為的希望之光,可惜在其之後的著作中放棄...
評分【http://blog.sina.com.cn/leiwon】在《西方世界的興起》和《經濟史上的結構和變革》的寫作過程中,諾思嘗試著使用新製度經濟學的分析工具來重新解釋經濟史,收到瞭預期的實驗功效,但還不足以開宗立派。直到這本《製度、製度變遷與經濟績效》的問世,諾思纔應該算是成為一位...
評分 評分在從人類行為理論和交易費用理論相結閤的分析視角對製度的復雜構成進行一些理論探討後,諾斯接著在第二篇中用三章的篇幅專門探討瞭人類社會製度變遷的一些理論問題。 1,第9章, 諾斯主要討論組織是如何引緻變遷的。他認為,組織及其企業傢是製度變遷的主角,他們...
評分曆史永遠對當下是重要的,這不是一個規範錶述。現在與未來是由過去形塑的,隻有在製度演化的曆史話語中,纔能理解過去。製度的報酬遞增,網絡外部性,心智構建與意識形態,非正式約束的韌性,這些引緻齣瞭North提齣的著名概念——路徑依賴(path dependence)。一但走入一個製...
圖書標籤: 經濟學 institutionalism economics 製度經濟學 政治學 製度 politics 經濟
Chapters 1 and 12.
評分第一章。
評分為我增加瞭一種理解世界的方式。
評分作者是1993年諾貝爾經濟學獎得主,此書是1990年齣版的,建議讀英文原版的,書裡很多詞很多語句,中文是很難翻齣來的。 社會上每一個人每一個組織(例如政府企業學校)都是製度裡的玩傢,玩傢依著遊戲規則來玩耍,玩傢從新手變成老手,老手有套路,反過頭來影響瞭製度的修改。進入無限循環。
評分上次讀還是自己的智識停留在柏拉圖和亞裏士多德的時候,想必那時問教授的問題很讓他睏惑。。製度理論是自由主義,馬剋思主義,社會資本主義三大範式的摺中。這三種範式幾乎在同一時間意識到對社會的理解離不開製度。諾斯大緻齣身自由主義製度學範式。製度決定遊戲規則,組織在既定遊戲規則框架內博弈。組織根據經濟和政治影響力大小試圖改變正式製度亦即重塑遊戲規則,而製度的存在使權力的變遷無法太迅速地呈現,因此保證瞭社會係統的相對穩定。非正式製度的使用對發展理論很有益(參見Ostrom etc)。外生衝擊試圖改變正式製度時非正式製度(包括既存行為)常加以阻撓;而外來參與者進入製度中後其行為與偏好也常被製度重塑或改變。科技和創新很大程度受製度影響,因此製度可能影響國傢經濟發展。但無製度起源的探尋,這大概是A&J的頭功。
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載