道格拉斯·C.诺思和罗伯特·W.福格尔同时被宣布为今年诺贝尔经济学奖得主,以表彰他们在经济史领域所作出的杰出贡献,他们成为自诺贝尔经济奖设置以来第一次当选的经济史学家,殊为不易。 对于诺思,中国人并不陌生,他的一些重要著述先前已被翻译介绍过来。在《经济史上的结构和变革》一书中,诺思对他的新经济史理论及其对西方历史的阐释比较系统、完 Douglas C. North and Robert W. Fogel were both announced as Nobel Prize winners in economics in recognition of their outstanding contributions in the field of economic history and they have been the first since the Nobel Economic Prize was set up Economically elected economists, but not easy. For North, Chinese is no stranger to some of his important writings have been translated before introduced. In his book Economic Structure and Change, North interprets his theory of new economic history and his interpretation of western history more systematically.