关键词: 制度, 权力, 冲突, 有限理性

Abstract: Institutional arrangement means regularization of people’s behavior and establishment and maintenance of certain order. The author reasons that establishing and maintaining order requires regulation of people’s behavior. First, power is a necessary evil. So, behaviors of the people with power should be regularized. Secondly, conflicts and cooperation are the basic model of human behaviors. To establish and maintain order requires that people’s behaviors be regularized so that cooperation can be promoted. Meanwhile, activities aimed at benefits may continue but should be in accordance with the social order. Thirdly, human rationality is limited, for humans are of a mixture of sensitivity and rationality. We cannot expect a man to be reasonable all the time. It is likely that man might behave badly and break the order. Therefore, human behaviors must be regularized before order can be established and maintained.

Key words: institution, power, conflict, limited rationality