Kurumsal İktisatta Açılan Yeni Bir Pencere: Douglass C. North Perspektifinden Kurumların Değerlendirilmesi

Year 2018, Volume: 5 Issue: 2, 163 - 178, 15.07.2018

Merve Yolal Eroğlu

https://doi.org/10.17541/optimum.390618

Cited By: 2

Abstract

Bu çalışmanın amacı,
ekonomik ve kurumsal değişimi değerlendirirken “cliometrics” (kantitatif
yöntemlerin uygulanması yoluyla tarih analizi yöntemi) alanda yaptığı öncü
çalışmaları ve kurumsal iktisat alanına sağladığı katkılarından dolayı 1993
yılında Nobel Ekonomi Ödülü’ ne layık görülen Douglass C. North’un kurumlar
hakkındaki düşüncelerini açıklamaktır. Çalışmada, Yeni Kurumsal İktisata farklı
bir bakış açısı getiren Douglass Cecil North’un perspektifinden kural ve kurum
olgusu, kurumsal yapıya bağlı olarak değişen ve ekonomik performansı etkileyen
işlem maliyetleri ve mülkiyet hakları konusu ile kurumsal değişimin nedenleri
ve kurumsal değişimin ekonomik performans üzerindeki etkileri incelenecektir.    

Keywords

Kurum, Ekonomik Büyüme, İşlem Maliyetleri, Mülkiyet Hakları

A New Window Opened at Institutional Economy: Evaluation of the Institutions in the Douglass C. North Perspective

Abstract

The
aim of this study is to explain the  judgments on the institutions of
Douglass C. North, whose was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1993 for his pioneering
studies in the field of "cliometrics" (the method of historical
analysis through the application of quantitative methods) field while
evaluating the economic and the institutional change and for his contributions
to the field of the institutional economics. In the study, the concept of rules
and institutions, transaction costs and property rights that change depending
on the institutional structure and affect economic performance, the reasons of
the institutional change and the effects of the institutional change on the
economic performance will be examined with the perspective of Douglass Cecil
North, who presents a different point of view to New Institutional Economics.

Keywords

Institution, Economic Growth, Transaction Costs, Property Rights

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