Mantzavinos, C., Douglass C. North, Syed Shariq, 2003, "Learning, Institutions and Economic Performance", 下载地址为http://www.mpp-rdg.mpg.de/pdf_dat/2003_13online.pdf

在这篇文章中，诺思等跳出理性和有限理性的假说，从认知能力的角度来描述制度的出现、变迁和绩效，这似乎是“行为制度经济学”的产品。

Abstract In this article, we provide a broad overview of the interplay among cognition, belief systems, and institutions, and how they affect economic performance. We argue that a deeper understanding of institutions’ emergence, their working properties, and their effect on economic and political outcomes should begin from an analysis of cognitive processes. We explore the nature of individual and collective learning, stressing that the issue is not whether agents are perfectly or boundedly rational, but rather how human beings actually reason and choose, individually and in collective settings. We then tie the processes of learning to institutional analysis, providing arguments in favor of what can be characterized as “cognitive institutionalism.” Besides, we show that a full treatment of the phenomenon of path dependence should start at the cognitive level, proceed at the institutional level, and culminate at the economic level.