The Dahrendorf hypothesis and its implications for (the theory of) economic policy-making
探讨达伦多夫假说，认为经济政策不应趋同于单一理想模式，并指出引入根本不确定性或内生政策偏好的视角与该假说一致，对政策制定者及经济学研究者有参考价值。
The sociologist R. Dahrendorf has recently suggested that there is no and there ought to be no convergence of economic policies towards some common ideal model. On the contrary, he states that 'diversity is […] at the very heart of a world that has abandoned the need for closed, encompassing systems'. It is shown in this paper that the Dahrendorf hypothesis is difficult to reconcile with orthodox economic approaches to economic policy-making. A perspective on policy-making that introduces either fundamental uncertainty or endogenous policy preferences or both is, however, shown to be consistent with the Dahrendorf hypothesis. Copyright 2005, Oxford University Press.