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1、Preliminary,donotquotewithouttheauthorspermission*InstitutionalThoughtinGermanyReportby1RudolfRichterSaarbrückenSummary:AftersomebriefremarksontheGermanHistoricalSchoolthepapercontinueswithacondensedreviewofGermaninstitutionaleconomicssince1950.Prominent,duringthefifties,weretheFreiburgSchool,wit
2、hWalterEuckenasitstopfigure,andtheSocialMarketEconomymovement.ThesixtieswerecharacterizedbyincreasinganinterestintheUnityoftheSocialSciences;earlyGermantranslationsofthebooksbyDownsandOlsonappeared.DuringtheseventiesPublicChoiceissueswerewidelyrecognized;alsothefirstGermantranslationsofpapersbyCo
3、ase,Calabresi,Posnerappeared.TheNewInstitutionalEconomicsinthesenseofOliverWilliamsonaswellasDouglassNorthbecamecentralissuesintheeightiesandweredeepenedduringthenineties.ThesamehappenedwiththeEconomicAnalysisofLaw.Finally,areportonorganizedinstitutionaleconomicresearchin"Germanophone"countriesdu
4、ringtheninetiesisgivenplusasurveyofsomeoftheGermanliteratureinthefield.TheaimofthisreportistogiveforeignreadersaroughideaofthehistoricbackgroundofGermannewinstitutionaleconomics,andtoprovideaddressesofscholarsandresearchgroupsoftheNIEtousers,asortof"YellowPages"ofGermanmoderneconomicinstitutional
5、ists.InGermany,thehistoricalrootsoftheNewInstitutionalEconomicscanbetracedbacktothesecondhalfofthenineteenthcentury.Thetradition,oncebegun,wasinfluentialinthedevelopmentoftheAmericanOldInstitutionalEconomics(Veblen,Mitchell,Commons)and,althoughGermaninstitutionalthinkingexperiencedsomemetamorphos
6、esovertime,itremainedanintellectualforceinGermanyuptothepointatwhichtheAmericanNewInstitutionalEconomics,PublicChoice,EconomicAnalysisofLaw,ConstitutionalEconomics,etc.arrivedinEurope.Insketchingthemannerinwhichthefundamentalideasof*PaperpreparedfortheannualconferenceoftheInternationalSocietyforN
7、ewInstitutionalEconomics(ISNIE)atTübingen,Sept.2224,2000.IwishtothankPeterBernholz,RolandKirstein,EkkehartSchlicht,DieterSchmidtchenfortheircommentsandcorrections.ThanksalsotoEirikG.Furubotnwhoreadandimprovedthemanuscr