新制度经济学教案NorthandNye.doc

新制度经济学（NIE）教案_North and NyeTopics in New Institutional Economics (Econ 529)Douglass North and John NyeWashington University in St. Louis, Spring 2003Textbooks for the course areAlston, Lee J., Eggertsson, Thrainn, and North, Douglass C., eds. Empirical Studies in Institutional Change, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. (=AEN)Drobak, John and Nye, John, editors, Frontiers of the New Institutional Economics, Academic Press 1997 (=DN)Furubotn, Eirik G. and Richter, Rudolf, Institutions and Economic Theory: The Contribution of the New Institutional Economics, Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1998Part I: NyeA.Economic Theory and the New Institutional Economics1. Science, methodology, the role of observation, and the need for a broader conception of theoryFeynman, Richard P., Leighton, Robert B., and Sands, Matthew, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Addison-Wesley, 1963, excerptsIntroduction and first two chapters, North, D. C., “Prologue,” andFogel, R. W., “Douglass C. North and Economic Theory,” in DN McCloskey, Deirdre, “Rhetoric of Mathematical Formalism,” Chapter 10 of Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 19942. BasicsWhat are institutions?Relationship to microeconomic theory of variables and to macroeconomic theory of variablesHow do institutions change?Alston, Lee J., Eggertsson, Thrainn, and North, Douglass C, “Introduction,” in AEN Eggertsson, Thrainn, “A Note on the Economics of Institutions,” in AEN Alston, Lee J., “Empirical Work in Institutional Economics: An Overview,” in AEN Furubotn and Richter, Chapter 13. Do economists know that institutions matter?Rodrik, Dani, Subramanian, Arvind, and Trebbi, Francesco, “Institutions Rule: The Primacy of Institutions over Geography and Integration in Economic Development,” NBER Working Paper 9305, 2002Keefer, Philip and Shirley, Mary M., “Formal versus Informal Institutions in Economic Development,” in Claude Menard (ed.), Institutions, Contracts, and Organizations: Perspectives from New Institutional Economics, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2000B.Political EconomyPublic Choice, Property Rights, and Political ScienceLibecap, Gary, “Economic Variables and the Development of the Law,” in AEN Ensminger, J., “Changing Property Rights: Reconciling Formal and Informal Rights to Land in Africa,” in DN Weingast, B. R., “The Political Foundations of Limited Government: Parliament and Sovereign Debt in 17th- and 18th-Century England,” in DN Krueger, “Anne O., “The Political Economy of Controls: American Sugar,” in AEN Higgs, Robert, “Legally Induced Technical Regress in the Washington Salmon Fishery,” in AEN Furubotn and Richter, Chapter 3C.Implications of New Institutional Economics for Economic HistoryHoffman, P. T. and Rosenthal, J.-L., “The Political Economy of Warfare and Taxation in Early Modern Europe: Historical Lessons for Economic Development,” in DN Greif, A., “On the Interrelations and Economic Implications of Economic, Social, Political and Normative Factors: Reflections From Two Late Medieval Societies,” in DN North, Douglass C. and Weingast, Barry R., “Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England,” in AEN Nye, John, War, Wine, and Taxes, work in progress, excerptsD.New Institutional Economics and the Analysis of Political Struggle War and Conflict in Economic PerspectiveUnsolved Problems, New SpeculationsNye, J.V.C., “Thinking About the State: Property Rights, Trade, and Changing Contractual Arrangements in a World with Coercion,” in DN Alston, L.J., Libecap, G.D., and Mueller, B., “Violence and the Development of Property Rights to Land in the Brazilian Amazon,” in DN Furubotn and Richter, Chapters 6 and 9Schofield, Norman, “Institutional Innovation, Contingency and War: A Review” in Social Choice and Welfare17 (June 2000), 463-479Schofield, Norman, “Constitutional Political Economy: Rational Choice Theory and Comparative Politics,” Annual Review of Political Science 3 (July 2000), 277-303Nye, John, “Killing Private Ryan: An Institutional Analysis of Strategy and Military Procurement in World War II,” work in progressE.A Brief Introduction to Managerial Issues in OrganizationMiller, Gary, Managerial Dilemmas: The Political Economy of Hierarchy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, excerptsWilliamson, Oliver E., The Mechanisms of Governance, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, excerptsFurubotn and Richter, Chapters 2, 5, 8 Part II: NorthA.The Process of Economic Change1. Rationality, cognition, and choicesNorth, Douglass C. and Knight, Jack, “Explaining Economic Change: The Interplay Between Cognition and Institutions,” Legal Theory 3:3 (1997)North, Douglass C. and Denzau, Arthur T., “Shared Mental Models,” Kyklos 47:1 (1994), 3-31Clark, A., “Economic Reason: The Interplay of Individual Learning and External Structure,” in DN David, P.A. and Sanderson, W.C., “Making Use of Treacherous Advice: Cognitive Process, Bayesian Adaptation, and the Tenacity of Unreliable Knowledge,” in DN 2. Belief systems, culture, and cognitive scienceNorth, Douglass C., “Hayeks Contribution to Understanding the Process of Economic Change,” in Viktor Vanberg, editor, Freiheit, Wettbewerb und Wirtschaftsordnung, Freiburg i.Br.: Rudolf Haufe Verlag, 1999Vanberg, “Cultural Evolution, Collective Learning, and Constitutional Design” 1994 in: Reisman, D., editor., Economic Thought and Political Theory, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994, 171-2043. Institutional changeHeiner, Ronald A., “The Origin of Predictable Behavior,” American Economic Review 73:4 (September 1983), 560-595Cox, Gary W. and McCubbins, Mathew D., “The Institutional Determinants of Policy Outcomes,” in Haggard, Stephan and McCubbins, Mathew D., editors, Presidents, Parliaments, and Policy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000North, Douglass C., “A Transactions Cost Theory of Politics,” Journal of Theoretical Politics 2:4 (1990), 355-367 4. The process of economic changeNorth, Douglass C., “Institutions,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 5:1. (Winter 1991), 97-112Eggertsson, Thrainn, “Norms in Economics, with special reference to Economic Development,” in Hechter, Michael and Opp, Karl-Dieter, editors, Social Norms, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001, pp. 76-104Greif, Avner, “Cultural