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.
这部书分为三部分,集中回答了三个问题:什么是制度;制度变迁的动力;制度对于经济效绩的影响。三个问题结合一起回答了是什么、为什么、怎么办的问题。 在第一部分,诺斯集中解释了什么事制度,制度产生的原因。其采用了交易费用经济学思路分析了制度产生,制度之所以确立...
評分这部书分为三部分,集中回答了三个问题:什么是制度;制度变迁的动力;制度对于经济效绩的影响。三个问题结合一起回答了是什么、为什么、怎么办的问题。 在第一部分,诺斯集中解释了什么事制度,制度产生的原因。其采用了交易费用经济学思路分析了制度产生,制度之所以确立...
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 評分书名就告诉了我们此书的结构,进而我们发现这是它的逻辑进路,再而我们还能猜测出作者的研究指向和写作目的。而经典就是经典。一部再好的教科书也只能让人粗窥到一个学科领域的大致轮廓(差的教科书连这也办不到),而只有一部经典著作才能把人领进这个学科的大门。 “The prom...
this book is from a family friend, a sociology professor in HK. In the late 90s, he sent this book to dad, who can hardly read English! this is hilarious, somehow, it sat in our bookshelf with dense dusts for years long! Till recently, i happened to find it. The reading is worthy, which help a lot in better understanding my own subject.
评分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this book is from a family friend, a sociology professor in HK. In the late 90s, he sent this book to dad, who can hardly read English! this is hilarious, somehow, it sat in our bookshelf with dense dusts for years long! Till recently, i happened to find it. The reading is worthy, which help a lot in better understanding my own subject.
评分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.
评分為我增加瞭一種理解世界的方式。
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