"The Economics of Institutions" and the Institutional Analysis of Socio-economic Systems : For the Rebuilding of Political Economy

本研究的目的是考察自20世纪70年代以来制度经济学的各种发展。最重要的是，自20世纪80年代以来，各种制度主义已经恢复。然而，到目前为止，这些制度主义实际上仅限于对制度的经济分析。为了在更大的社会经济系统框架内发展制度经济学，本文试图将制度主义的新趋势概括为社会经济系统的制度分析，并特别关注了三个研究群体，即现代制度经济学、激进政治经济学和管制方法，它们都独立地从事了制度主义的理论化工作。通过对这三个研究群体的考察，我们发现：首先，这三个研究群体继承了不同的制度主义思想传统，即现代制度经济学、激进政治经济学和传统经济学。 ...更多信息 规制理论分别继承了凡勃伦的制度主义、马克思的制度主义、凯恩斯和后凯恩斯的制度主义。因此，通过对这些研究群体的关注，我们可以得出凡勃伦的制度主义、马克思的制度主义、凯恩斯的制度主义和后凯恩斯主义的制度主义在制度经济学的分析领域中如何相互关联的新论点。其次，这些研究群体在制度分析和制度演变方面形成了各自的理论基础。具体而言，现代制度经济学在理论化经济主体行为和制度形成与演化方面具有自身的理论特色，激进政治经济学在制度分析的微观基础上具有自身的理论特色，规制方法在制度分析的宏观基础上具有自身的理论特色。因此，综合三个研究群体的制度主义，可以为制度经济学提供一个新的理论框架和新的研究方法，而不是将我们自己的社会经济系统制度分析的理论框架与演化经济学联系起来。从这个意义上说，本研究是一个中期报告，我们试图概括制度主义的新趋势，作为社会经济系统的制度分析。少

The purpose of this study is to examine various developments in the economics of institutions since the 1970s. Above all, a variety of institutionalism has been restored since the l980s. So far, however, these institutionalism are literally confined to the economical analysis of institutions. In oder to develop the economics of institutions in the larger framework of socio-economic systems, this study attempts to generalize new trends of institutionalism as the institutional analysis of socio-economic systems.Here, we paid special attention to three study groups, that is, the modem institutional economics, the radical political economy, and the regulation approach, which have engaged in theorizing the institutionalism on their own. From focusing on these study groups, we found the following research results.First of all, these three study groups inherit different intellectual tradition of institutionalism, that is, the modem institutional economics, the radical political economy, and t … More he regulation approach inherit the institutionalism of Veblen, of Marx, and of Keynes and post-Keynesian respectively. Therefore, from our focusing on these study groups we can derive the new argument such that how the institutionalism of Veblen, of Marx, and of Keynes and post-Keynesian can be interrelated with one another in the analytical field of the economics of institutions.Next, these study groups have developed their own theoretical foundations on the analysis of institutions and the evolution of institutions. To put it more concretely, the modem institutional economics has its own theoretical characteristics on theorizing behavior of economic agents and the formation and evolution of institutions, the radical political economy has its own theoretical characteristics on the microfoundation of institutional analysis, and the regulation approach has its own theoretical characteristics on the macrofoundation of institutional analysis. Therefore, synthesizing three institutionalism of these study groups enables us to obtain a new theoretical framework and a new approach to the economics of institutions.We are not concerned in this study with a problem such that how our own theoretical framework of the institutional analysis of socio-economic systems can be interrelated with the evolutionary economics. In this sense, this study is an interim report on our attempts to generalize new trends of institutionalism as the institutional analysis of socio-economic systems. Less