制度分析的误区及其校正——制度分析的最新发展与《制度经济学三人谈》

Misunderstanding and Correction about Institutional Analysis

这是一篇批评性和讨论性学术书评。文章概括了侃书和写书的优劣,说明了该书所取形式和所论内容的紧张,指出了该书与其说是一本制度经济学著作,不如说主要讨论的是制度哲学问题,批评了该书作者关于理论只是和只能解释理论,不是也不能解释实际的观点,在评介现代制度经济学最新发展的同时,揭示了该书作者在讨论过程理性和情景理性、均衡分析和秩序描述、哈耶克的法律观和规则观中的推进之处和不当之处,通过这些评论,旨在校正关于经济学制度分析可能出现的误区。

This paper is a critical, discussional and academic book review which contrasts the talking-book with writing-book, points out the strain of the format and content, and demonstrates this book more a book about institutional philosophy than a book about institutional economics. This article criticizes the viewpoint of the book that theory can only explain theory, rather practice. Reviewing the development of modern institutional economics, this paper explicates advances and deficiencies on a few issues ： such as the process rationality and situated rationality, equilibrium analysis and order description, hayek＇ s law and rule notion, etc. In general, this book review aims to correcting possible misunderstanding about institutional analysis of economic.