Introduction: Institutional Analysis and Economic History
这篇引言介绍了三篇将制度分析与传统理论结合的文章，探讨政治和经济制度如何影响经济行为，帮助经济史学者理解制度对长期经济表现的作用。
The three articles that follow this introductory essay reflect a rapidly growing effort in the social sciences to integrate institutional analysis with more traditional theory. In economic history, institutional analysis attempts to expand and enrich our understanding by modeling the ways in which the “rules of the game”–specifically, political and economic institutions–have affected economic behavior. By drawing on the literature of political economy, for example, economic historians can explore how institutions have interacted to affect economic performance over time.