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.
诺思的这本书十分清晰的建立了他的制度变迁分析框架,对古典经济学的传统模型进行了有力的修正,将个人效用函数差异,信息不确定性等因素引入了古典经济学工具理性的基本假设,使之具有了更强的现实解释力,同时为经济史研究提供了新的观察视角与分析框架。很多我们耳熟能详的...
评分【http://blog.sina.com.cn/leiwon】在《西方世界的兴起》和《经济史上的结构和变革》的写作过程中,诺思尝试着使用新制度经济学的分析工具来重新解释经济史,收到了预期的实验功效,但还不足以开宗立派。直到这本《制度、制度变迁与经济绩效》的问世,诺思才应该算是成为一位...
评分阅读名著很有压力,写名著的读书笔记就更有压力了……诺思的《制度、制度变迁与经济绩效》自然属于让人倍感压力的名著,译者前言里提到这本书已有了三个中文译本,可见其影响之深,我看的是最新出的2008年版本,花了断断续续的三天时间将之看完,不禁庆幸自己能一睹名著的...
评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...
我只能说这是一本开创性的无比伟大的书!
评分因为这本书入的坑
评分看过好久了吧!
评分Chapters 1 and 12.
评分我只能说这是一本开创性的无比伟大的书!
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