Review essay on an economist's perspective on history. Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance by Douglass C. North, 1990
这篇书评介绍了诺思的博弈论框架，将制度、组织和个体分别视为规则、团队和玩家，用于分析历史事件，并作为连接社会科学与人文学科的方法论桥梁。
Douglass North earned a share of the 1993 Nobel prize for economics for two decades of research that culminated in the development of an innovative framework for analyzing economic history. This review essay discusses the book that most comprehensively presents North's paradigm, which characterizes history as the record of an evolving game in which institutions, organizations, and individuals function as the rules, teams, and players. Through examples, the reviewer illustrates how North's game theoretic paradigm can serve not only as a tool for analyzing historical events but also as a methodological bridge between the diverse branches of the social sciences and humanities.