Douglass C. North is also professor of history and a fellow of the Center in Political Economy. He was on the faculty of the University of Washington and held visiting chairs at Cambridge and Rice Universities. In 1993 he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has served as president of the Economic History Association and the Western Economic Association. His major interest is the evolution of economic and political institutions. The effects of institutions on the development of economies through time is a major emphasis in his work in both economic history and development. Among his books are The Rise of the Western World (with R. P. Thomas, 2nd edition), 1973, Growth and Welfare in the American Past, 1973, Structure and Change in Economic History, 1981, and Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance, 1990.
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The Rise of the Western World 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
【http://blog.sina.com.cn/leiwon】道格拉斯·诺思是新经济史领域的杰出代表,1973年与罗伯斯·托马斯合著出版的《西方世界的兴起》是该学术领域进入新制度经济学分析阶段的重要著作。这本书开门见山提出中心论点:“有效率的经济组织是经济增长的关键,一个有效率的经济组织...
评分从拿起《经济史上的结构和变迁》,转而投向更浅显易入手的此书,我一直是目的导向的。想解决的问题就是“是什么阻止了人们自由、有尊严的活着,人的自由和尊严为什么是必要的”,比如财产、行动和思想自由,还有自己利益和常识不被践踏。因为现实的苦闷,因为看似漏洞...
评分第一章 问题 一、中心论点 本书的中心论点是有效率的经济组织是经济增长的关键;一个有效率的经济组织在西欧的发展正是西方兴起的原因所在。有效率的经济组织能够使个人的经济努力的私人收益率接近社会收益率,从而提供最有效的激励。市场机制能够发挥配置资源的作用关键还是参...
评分什么是经济增长?经济增长的动因是什么? 在马克思眼中,创造更多的价值就意味着经济的增长,价值的增多要靠生产率的提高,而技术革新有利于生产率的提高,于是经济增长的动因就落在了技术革新上;在诺斯眼中,经济增长即人均收入的持续增长,意味着社会总收入必然比人口增长得...
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This is a landmark book on the impact of property rights on European economic development. Published over a quarter of a century ago, its stated goal is "... to suggest new paths for the study of European economic history rather than ... either [a detailed and exhaustive study or a precise empirical test that are the] ... standard formats" (p. vii). North and Thomas attempt to identify the elements that allowed the Western European economy to rise to affluence. Their argument is made transparent in Chapter One (Theory and Overview): the key to growth was and is an efficient economic system. Efficient in the sense that the system of property rights gives individuals incentives to innovate and produce, and, conversely inhibits those activities (rent-seeking, theft, arbitrary confiscation and/or excessive taxation) that reduce individual incentives. They argue that property rights are classic public goods because: (1) once a more efficient set of property rights is discovered the marginal cost of copying it is low (compared to the cost of discovering and developing it); (2) it is prohibitively expensive to prevent other political jurisdictions from emulating a more efficient set of property rights regardless of whether they contributed to their construction; (3) and finally, the idea of a set of property rights, like all ideas, is non-rival -- we can all consume the same idea and the "stock" of the idea is not diminished. These public good aspects lead them to conclude that there may be under investment in the attempts to create more efficient sets of property rights because the jurisdiction that invests in the development of property rights pays the entire cost of their development but receives only benefits that accrue to its jurisdiction, while other jurisdictions can get the benefits without any of the developmental costs. Thus, the problems of public goods and the "free riders."
人口本身不是问题,制度才是关键。。但制度也要看社会进步的程度。。
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评分无需多说,大师级作品。历史叙述在一些地方还是比较entangled,但总体上来还是给人耳目一新的感觉。简明晚期中世纪与近代早期西方经济史,总体的大背景是中世纪晚期人口增长、土地拓垦导致的庄园经济向商品-货币-市场经济的转型,强调经济组织、强制机关与产权制度在促进私营部门开采市场资源上的关键作用,并形成了西方持续性的经济增长。虽然强调制度在促进经济增长时的作用,但整个的叙事还是建立在市场经济的基础上的。说白了,经济要增长,必须有市场。
评分这家伙喜欢跑题。对每个国家和时期论述时的重点与史料都使用不均,叙述中也不易分清这是历史现象还是ideally根据经济模型应该有的样子。很重要的土地私有化可流转的史实基本只给了十三世纪英国的。对于最重要的论点:交易成本的降低,在荷兰只讲到其然,未见最重要的所以然(为什么在法国和西班牙就实现不了)。同样解释了西班牙却解释不了更复杂的北意大利。总体的论点是很整齐的。
评分Efficient economic institution propelled the economic growth observed in western Europe.
The Rise of the Western World 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书