今年的诺贝尔经济学奖授予了两位研究新制度经济学的美国学者埃莉诺·奥斯特罗姆和奥利弗·威廉姆森。新制度经济学是以主流经济学的方法分析研究制度,因此成为能被当代主流经济学派所接纳的新领域。此分支的启蒙者科斯荣获1991年度的诺贝尔经济学奖。此后,华盛顿大学教授道格拉斯·诺思也因此于1993年戴上诺贝尔经济学奖的桂冠。许多经济学家认为,制度学派将重新被人们重视,成为主流。 This year’s Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to two American academics, Eleanor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson, who study new institutional economics. The new institutional economics analyzes and studies the system based on the method of mainstream economics, and thus becomes a new field that can be accepted by mainstream contemporary economists. Coase, the initiator of this branch, won the 1991 Nobel Prize in Economics. Since then, Douglas North, a professor at Washington University, also won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1993. Many economists think that institutionalism will be re-emphasized and become the mainstream.