摘要
本文认为中国商周秦汉时期经历了农地排它性公有产权向私有产权的演进过程。春秋战国时期土地私有产权界定带来的社会较大社会净收益导致了制度竞争，加速了农地排它性公有产权向私有产权的演进。这一制度变迁过程显示，导致经济增长的是技术与产权制度的互动、技术革新决定了经济增长的上限，而产权制度的保护决定了经济增长的实际速度。从历史分析中，我们发现，诺斯早期的制度演理逻辑忽略了技术环节。
Historical and archeological evidence shows that China experienced a period of communal land ownership in her Shang and West Zhou periods.As a response to the population pressure,agricultural technology was improved considerably in these two periods,increasing the capacity of individual cultivation as well as calling for fine-tuned coordination in the field.As a result,private land ownership emerged in the Chunqiu and Zhanguo periods.In this process,technology played a critical role in defining the relative scarcity of land,a point somewhat lost in Douglass North's early theory of institutional change.
出处
《经济学（季刊）》
2002年第4期803-820,共18页
China Economic Quarterly
