摘要
本文借对美国经济学家肖特的《社会制度的经济理论》评论 ,阐述了什么是英文的“institution” ,什么是中文的“制度” ,制度是如何产生的 ,以及制度在市场中的作用。本文还对当今世界上制度经济学研究的三大流派做了一些理论评述 ,并对未来制度经济学的发展趋势做了一些展望。
This article serves as a preliminary summary of Professor Wei Sen's theoretical contributions in the field of institution economics in recent years. In his review of The Economic Theory of Institutions by an American economist Andrew Schotter, Wei Sen makes a detailed and thorough study of the meaning of “institution' and its proper rendition in Chinese, and offers some deep insights in the mechanisms of spontaneous formation of institutions and their roles in market transactions. Three major schools in contemporary institutional analysis in the world are outlined: neo-institutionalism, neoclassical mainstream studies of transaction costs in the framework of general equilibrium theory, and game-theoretic approaches to institutions. This paper also offers some prospects on the dynamic developments of institutional economics in the future.
出处
《中国社会科学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2003年第6期43-57,共15页
Social Sciences in China
