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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閱讀名著很有壓力,寫名著的讀書筆記就更有壓力瞭……諾思的《製度、製度變遷與經濟績效》自然屬於讓人倍感壓力的名著,譯者前言裏提到這本書已有瞭三個中文譯本,可見其影響之深,我看的是最新齣的2008年版本,花瞭斷斷續續的三天時間將之看完,不禁慶幸自己能一睹名著的...
評分閱讀名著很有壓力,寫名著的讀書筆記就更有壓力瞭……諾思的《製度、製度變遷與經濟績效》自然屬於讓人倍感壓力的名著,譯者前言裏提到這本書已有瞭三個中文譯本,可見其影響之深,我看的是最新齣的2008年版本,花瞭斷斷續續的三天時間將之看完,不禁慶幸自己能一睹名著的...
評分我是在上班路上看瞭一周看完的,由於環境嘈雜所以可能吸收受影響。North對製度成本、路徑問題、認知和學習等等問題的強調與分析都讓我在讀這本書之前印象深刻,不過讀過這本書後,能感覺到他思維大概是相當有條理相當有邏輯性的,但是書寫得相當濃縮,對於對經濟學理論沒有深入...
評分推薦這個級彆,本不應該是這本書的真實地位;但是考慮到翻譯者“處心積慮”地翻譯瞭這樣一個作品齣來,因此隻能被迫降級到“推薦”。以下所描述的,是我對於這本經過翻譯瞭的《製度、製度變遷與經濟績效》的理解。 經濟績效(economy performance),我認為更適閤翻譯...
評分新製度經濟學的經典之作。 從修正新古典經濟學理性經濟人行為假定開始論述。諾思認為製度是決定長期經濟績效的最重要因素。製度變遷最初為相對價格的變化,人們感知瞭這種變化,並由已存的“心智構念(preexisting constructs)”修正感知,從而形成參與者的“意嚮性(internat...
圖書標籤: 經濟學 institutionalism economics 製度經濟學 政治學 製度 politics 經濟
第一章。
評分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.
評分對於製度和製度變化的解釋清楚明瞭。
評分為我增加瞭一種理解世界的方式。
評分我隻能說這是一本開創性的無比偉大的書!
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