Professor Hodgson in his review of my A Culture of Growth (Princeton University Press, 2016) raises a number of important issues. One of them is the usefulness of the concept of a ‘market for ideas’ as an analytical tool in discussing the way cultural change affects economic change. Even though there is no price mechanism that clears the market, many basic components of the economic analysis of markets carry through and enriched by evolutionary concepts. A second question is the importance of cultural entrepreneurs, who play an important role in my book. It should be stressed that such ‘Vital Few’ were rarely indispensable, yet their influence on subsequent events may have imparted a direction on events and accelerated them. In any event, the success of such entrepreneurs was an indication of an intellectual environment sufficiently open to new ideas to be consistent with major new ideas such as the possibility and desirability of sustained economic progress.

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制度、思想和经济变革：对杰弗里·霍奇森《文化与制度》的一些思考

霍奇森教授在他对我的评论中成长文化（普林斯顿大学出版社，2016 年）提出了许多重要问题。其中之一是“思想市场”这一概念在讨论文化变革影响经济变革的方式时作为分析工具的有用性。尽管没有使市场出清的价格机制，但市场经济分析的许多基本组成部分通过进化概念得以延续和丰富。第二个问题是文化企业家的重要性，他们在我的书中发挥了重要作用。应该强调的是，这样的“重要少数”很少是必不可少的，但它们对后续事件的影响可能已经为事件指明了方向并加速了它们。在任何情况下，