在我漫长的一生中曾经认识了一些伟大的经济学家,但我从未将自己计算在他们之内,也从未走进他们的圈子。我未曾在高深的理论方面有过创新。我对经济学的贡献是,敦促把经济制度中如此明显,以致象在G·K·切斯特顿的布朗神父故事中所说的邮递员——“隐身人”那样,往往被人忽略的一些特点,容纳到我们的分析里。然而,一经纳入分析,它们就会,正如我们相信的那样,在经济理论结构里,至少在所谓价格理论或微观经济学方面,产生全面的变革。我所做到的是,指出那可以称之谓生产的制度结构对经济制度运行的重要 There have been some great economists in my long life, but I have never counted myself in them and have never walked into their circles. I have not been innovative in advanced theory. My contribution to economics is to urge the economy to be so conspicuous that it is often overlooked, as the postman named “Invisible Man” in G. K. Chesterton’s Fables Some of the features that fit into our analysis. However, once incorporated into the analysis, they will, as we believe, produce a complete revolution in the structure of economic theory, at least in terms of so-called price theory or microeconomics. What I have done is to point out the importance of the institutional structure that can be called production to the operation of the economic system