浅议新制度经济学的革命与改良

The Revolution and Reform of Neoinstitutional Economics

新制度经济学是一场经济学革命,在许多人眼里似乎已经是不证自明的结论,但是革命的定性能否经得起推敲,或者推敲之后是否会有新的发现?这尤为值得研究。简要回顾主流经济学的特征与局限,总结和探讨新制度经济学的主要革新路径及成果,可以发现,新制度经济学在新古典经济学的继承和发展方面取得了公认的成果,但是尚未发展出严格的、革命性的分析框架,革命还有很远的路要走。

Neoinstitutional economics, claimed as a revolution in economics, seems to many people as serf-evident conclusions. However, there remain some doubts as to whether the real nature of this revolution can withstand deliberation or whether there will be some new discoveries even after deliberation. A brief survey of the features and limitations of leading economics and a summary of the revolutionary approaches and results concerning neoinstitutional economics demonstrate that though this revolutions has achieved prominent results in inheriting and developing neoclassical economics, there still lacks a strict and revolutionary analytical framework and therefore there is still a long way to go for this revolution.