制度分析的生态学范式初探

当前制度分析流派基本可归结为整体主义和个人主义两大阵营。前者理论难以数量化，未能清楚说明制度变迁的来源，并且天然地忽视个体作用；后者缺少集体行动理论，未能透彻理解市场，同时存在循环论证的问题。这些困难来源于二者基本范式不兼容，彼此之间往往构不成互补。本文致力于提出基于生态学的新制度研究范式，探讨将整体主义和个体主义相兼容的可能性。在生态学视角下，单个制度具有了生命特性，能够遗传、变异和扩张。制度整体也具有类似于生态系统的稳定性、多样性和耐受性。通过引入制度生态位的概念，我们可以对类似经济增长与制度之间关系的问题进行深入探究。这些表现出生态学作为一种新范式的潜力。

The Institutional Analysis in Ecological Paradigm

The current institutional analysis can be divided into two academic schools,holism and individualism.The theory of the former,hardly quantified,cannot clarify the sources of institutional change,and it automatically ignores the individual function in the process.The latter lacks the idea of collective action so that it fails to fully interpret the function of market.Further it is suspected of circular argument.Actually,these flaws originate from the incompatibility of the basic paradigms of the two theories...