The Rise of the Western World 在线电子书 图书标签: 经济史 经济学 economics 经济 Institutional 历史 制度经济学 Douglas
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经济增长来源于自由的市场,和恰当的法制。政府都有短视的倾向,必须限制政府权力。
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。
评分诺斯有名的著作,其中财产权的分析很重要~
评分人口本身不是问题,制度才是关键。。但制度也要看社会进步的程度。。
评分Efficient economic institution propelled the economic growth observed in western Europe.
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."
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。...
评分诺斯所阐述的“所有权的确定(或明晰)是近代西欧经济快速增长的动因”理论没有大瑕疵,问题出在翻译,很多句子初看让人摸不着头脑。 例如:“领主和他的骑士专门生产保护和公正,而依靠农奴来消费它们。”(第30页) 猜想译者想表达的是:领主和骑士不从事农业生产,他们依...
评分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...
评分西方世界的兴起与李约瑟之谜 【读品】http://dpjournal.org 李华芳http://www.lihuafang.com 郭凯在最近的一篇文章里提到对李约瑟之谜的解释,计有:1.杨小凯:中国没有宪政。2.林毅夫:中国的知识分子都去读八股文了,中国没有出现职业的科学家,因此技术革命在中国没有发生...
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