Structure and Change in Economic History

图书标准信息

• 作者 Douglass C. North（道格拉斯·C·诺斯） 著
• 出版社 W. W. Norton & Company
• 出版时间 1981-06
• 版次 1
• ISBN 9780393952414
• 定价 200.80元
• 装帧 平装
• 开本 32开
• 纸张 胶版纸
• 页数 240页
• 正文语种 英语

【内容简介】

AtthecoreofProfessorNorth'sinvestigationisthequestionofpropertyrights,thearrangementsindividualsandgroupshavemadethroughhistorytodealwiththefundamentaleconomicproblemofscarceresources.

Insixtheoreticalchapters,ProfessorNorthexaminesthestructureofeconomicsystems,outlinesaneconomictheoryofthestateandtheideologiesthatundergirdvariousmodesofeconomicorganization,andthenexploresthedynamicforcessuchasnewtechnologiesthatcauseinstitutionstoadaptinordertosurvive.Withthisanalyticalframeworkinplace,majorphasesinWesternhistorycomeundercarefulreappraisal,fromtheoriginsofagricultureandtheneolithicrevolutionthroughthepoliticaleconomyoftheancientandmedievalworldstotheindustrialrevolutionandtheeconomictransformationsofthetwentiethcentury.

StructureandChangeinEconomicHistoryisaworkthatwillreshapemanyestablishedexplanationsofthegrowthofthewest.

【作者简介】

Douglass Cecil North (born November 5, 1920) is an American economist known for his work in economic history. He is the co-recipient (with Robert William Fogel) of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. In the words of the Nobel Committee, North and Fogel were awarded the prize "for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change."

【目录】

Contents  Preface
ix

Part I • Theory
1

Chapter 1 • The Issues
3

Chapter 2 • An Introduction to the Structure of Economies
13

Chapter 3 • A Neoclassical Theory of the State
20

Chapter 4 • A Framework for Analyzing Economic
Organization in History
33

Chapter 5 • Ideology and the Free Rider Problem
45

Chapter 6 • Structure and Change in Economic History
59

Part II • History
69

Introduction
71

Chapter 7 • The First Economic Revolution
72

Chapter 8 • The Organizational Consequences of the
First Economic Revolution
90

Chapter 9 • Economic Change and Decline in the
Ancient World
113

Chapter 10 • The Rise and Decline of Feudalism
124

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Chapter 11 • Structure and Change in Early Modern
Europe
143

Chapter 12 • The Industrial Revolution Reconsidered
158

Chapter 13 • The Second Economic Revolution and Its
Consequences
171

Chapter 14 • Structure and Change in the American
Economy, 1789-1914
187

Part III • Theory and History
199

Chapter 15 • A Theory of Institutional Change and the
Economic History of the Western World
201

Bibliography
211

Index
221