Anti-Williamson: a Marxian critique of New Institutional Economics
从马克思主义视角批判新制度经济学，指出其用新古典工具解释资本主义制度、将市场视为自然和普遍的做法，并论证威廉姆森的理论本身就是资产阶级意识形态的产物。
New institutional economics explains capitalist institutions by means of neoclassical tools. This method consists of introducing non-market institutions as solutions to market failures. The explicit or implicit assumption is that ‘in the beginning there were markets’. In this paper, we criticise this conception inherited from neoclassical economics by focusing on Williamson’s theory. First, we discuss Williamson’s speculative method, which idealises the market and presents it as natural and univer-sal. We then suggest that Williamson’s categories, his method and conception are themselves products of bourgeois ideology. In this sense, we conclude, Williamson himself is ultimately an ‘institution of capitalism’.