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.
在从人类行为理论和交易费用理论相结合的分析视角对制度的复杂构成进行一些理论探讨后,诺斯接着在第二篇中用三章的篇幅专门探讨了人类社会制度变迁的一些理论问题。 1,第9章, 诺斯主要讨论组织是如何引致变迁的。他认为,组织及其企业家是制度变迁的主角,他们...
評分 評分我看的是刘瑞华翻译的版本,语言上来说要比这个版本好很多,这本书上承其《经济史中的结构与变迁》,增加了非正式制度的分析维度,认为制度的变迁是与正式制度之间的互动的结果,对非正式制度的分析以意识形态为基础,这本是解释集体行为的希望之光,可惜在其之后的著作中放弃...
評分历史永远对当下是重要的,这不是一个规范表述。现在与未来是由过去形塑的,只有在制度演化的历史话语中,才能理解过去。制度的报酬递增,网络外部性,心智构建与意识形态,非正式约束的韧性,这些引致出了North提出的著名概念——路径依赖(path dependence)。一但走入一个制...
評分在从人类行为理论和交易费用理论相结合的分析视角对制度的复杂构成进行一些理论探讨后,诺斯接着在第二篇中用三章的篇幅专门探讨了人类社会制度变迁的一些理论问题。 1,第9章, 诺斯主要讨论组织是如何引致变迁的。他认为,组织及其企业家是制度变迁的主角,他们...
製度是一個社會的博弈規則。很有啓發的名著,大一時沒付齣太多努力低空飛過的Economic History現在越來越覺得後悔。
评分俺自始至終都認為諾思沒有把意識形態或者觀念這個變量處理好
评分Good one!
评分Read it five years ago and did not understand much of it. It offers an alternative definition of 'institution' to account for economic change in terms of the dynamic institution.
评分思想不錯,敘述性有待加強
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