The potential link between Catholic social teaching (CST) and the theoretical developments associated with new institutional economics (NIE) are explored. The emphasis is on the contributions of two Nobel Prize winners in economics—Douglass C. North and Elinor Ostrom—and on the work of political scientist Vincent Ostrom. By adjusting the neoclassical presumptions dominating modern economic theory to include culture, ideas, and religious beliefs in the analysis of economic behavior, the economic and social theorizing developed by these scholars advances a framework that has significant affinities with CST’s foundational critique of economic concepts and theories and with its normative position regarding the nature and functioning of social and economic systems.

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天主教社会思想与新制度经济学：对他们的亲和力和潜在趋同领域的评估

探索了天主教社会教学（CST）与新制度经济学（NIE）相关的理论发展之间的潜在联系。重点是两位诺贝尔经济学奖获得者—道格拉斯·C·诺斯（Douglass C. North）和埃里诺·奥斯特罗姆（Elinor Ostrom）的贡献，以及政治科学家Vincent Ostrom的工作。通过调整在现代经济理论中占主导地位的新古典假设，以在经济行为分析中纳入文化，思想和宗教信仰，这些学者开发的经济和社会理论提出了一个框架，该框架与科技委对经济概念和理论的基本批判有着密切的联系并具有关于社会和经济系统的性质和功能的规范性立场。