久松さんの向こうを張って、というわけでもないが重複しないように。
Sure enough institutions have received more attention over the past 15 years or so than before, but the thinking was that we had to study the role of institutions to understand why poor nations were poor, not to probe the nature of the institutions that ensured continued prosperity in the advanced nations and how they should change in the face of ever evolving economic relations.
(p.4)
「制度の政治経済学」「制度と経済成長」研究における偏向への反省。
Barring a complete meltdown of the global system, even with the ferocious severity of the global crisis, the possible loss of GDP for most countries is in the range of a couple of percentage points, and most of this might have been unavoidable
given the overexpansion of the economy in the prior years. In contrast, modest changes in economic growth will cumulate to much larger numbers within one decade or two. Thus, from a policy and welfare perspective, it should be self-evident that sacrificing economic growth to deal with the current crisis is a bad option.
(pp.7-8)
はっきり言うなあ。
