对制度变迁理论的新发展及假设前提的评述

New Developments of the Institutional Change Theory and Review on Their Hypothesis

从诺斯概括的制度变迁一般理论出发,评述这一理论最新的发展,即引入制度变迁的主观博弈过程和进化博弈过程。同时分析各种思路的假设前提,强调在解释现实的制度变迁时,应该注意假设与现实的一致性,指出与中国现实相对接近的制度变迁理论是强制性制度变迁理论。

Subjective game and evolutionary game are introduced into the Institutional Change Theory, which is advanced by North. This latest development in institutional change theory is reviewed in this paper by inspecting the hypothesis. The result showed that, for the application of institutional theories, suitability of hypothesis to the reality is essential. Theory of Imposed Institutional Change is relatively close to the reality of China.