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.
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."
西方世界为何能够在近代兴起?这便是这本书要回答的问题。 什么才是经济增长的内在动因呢?这本书开宗明义的指出,“有效率的经济组织是经济增长的核心”,这也是西欧崛起的原因。而有效率的组织需要建立产权制度,以刺激“将个人的经济努力变成私人收益率接近社会收益率”的活...
評分不知道是不是翻译的问题,这本书读起来阻塞,啰啰嗦嗦的重复着。原本以为是厉以宁翻译的,后来读来觉得这本翻译起来也就是太水了,才发现原来是厉以平。何许人也?闻所未闻! 全书围绕制度的安排,私有权的确定,形成了个人收益率等于社会收益率,于是产生了有效...
評分总体读下来,整本书通俗易懂,在对历史的描绘中能够深刻感知到作者对相关理论和知识体系的阐述。从而让我打开了对制度发展认识的全新视角。 历史的发展总是偶然之中蕴含必然。在当时,谁会预料到法国的强有力的统治最终成为了阻碍其要素自由流动和经济进一步发展的限制性条件。...
評分所有权结构在尼德兰和英格兰业已发展,从而为持续的经济增长提供了必须的刺激。它们包括鼓励创新和随后工业化所需要的种种诱因。产业革命不是现代经济增长的原因。它是提高发展新技术和讲它应用于生产过程的私人收益率的结果。 此外,国际竞争还带来了强大动力,促使其他国家改...
無需多說,大師級作品。曆史敘述在一些地方還是比較entangled,但總體上來還是給人耳目一新的感覺。簡明晚期中世紀與近代早期西方經濟史,總體的大背景是中世紀晚期人口增長、土地拓墾導緻的莊園經濟嚮商品-貨幣-市場經濟的轉型,強調經濟組織、強製機關與産權製度在促進私營部門開采市場資源上的關鍵作用,並形成瞭西方持續性的經濟增長。雖然強調製度在促進經濟增長時的作用,但整個的敘事還是建立在市場經濟的基礎上的。說白瞭,經濟要增長,必須有市場。
评分經濟增長來源於自由的市場,和恰當的法製。政府都有短視的傾嚮,必須限製政府權力。
评分無需多說,大師級作品。曆史敘述在一些地方還是比較entangled,但總體上來還是給人耳目一新的感覺。簡明晚期中世紀與近代早期西方經濟史,總體的大背景是中世紀晚期人口增長、土地拓墾導緻的莊園經濟嚮商品-貨幣-市場經濟的轉型,強調經濟組織、強製機關與産權製度在促進私營部門開采市場資源上的關鍵作用,並形成瞭西方持續性的經濟增長。雖然強調製度在促進經濟增長時的作用,但整個的敘事還是建立在市場經濟的基礎上的。說白瞭,經濟要增長,必須有市場。
评分製度經濟學的經典之作!
评分Efficient economic institution propelled the economic growth observed in western Europe.
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