哈耶克的制度理论:秩序与传统

The Institution Theory of Hayek:Order and Traditions

哈耶克的制度理论是一种特殊意义上的制度理论。他的自由主义经济学观点,使他成为反对计划经济体制的代表,他重视法律在扩展秩序(theextentedorder)中的作用,认为传统是至关重要的,资本主义的秩序就是传统演化的结果。哈耶克这种重秩序、守法律的思想,实质上与新制度经济学制度变迁的进化论观念相一致。本文重点讨论哈耶克的扩展秩序和保持自由传统的制度观点,并指出它的现实意义。

The Institution theory of Hayek is a special institution theory. Owing to his ideas of liberalist economics, he became a representative objecting to planning economy. He stressed the roles of law in expanding order and thought that traditions were of vital importance. So he argued that the order of capitalism was the result of the evolution of traditions. In fact, Hayek’s idea of stressing order and law, by nature, is consistent with the evolution theory of institutional changes included in the new institution economics. This paper mainly explains Hayek's idea of extended order and maintaining liberal traditions, and then points out its practical implication.