The Pattern of the Chinese Past
出版时间
1973-06-01
ISBN
9780804708760
评分
★★★★★
书籍介绍
这是一本用经济学框架重审中国历史的开创性著作。作者伊懋可的核心洞见在于：宋代前后中国曾出现一场领先世界的经济革命，却在十三世纪后陷入
AI导读
核心看点
- 提出高水平平衡陷阱理论，解释为何中国未自发走向工业化。
- 探讨中国帝国为何能长期维持大一统，而罗马帝国最终崩溃。
- 分析宋代经济革命及14世纪后技术发展停滞的历史转折原因。
读者共识
- 高水平平衡陷阱理论逻辑自洽，是理解前现代中国经济的经典框架。
- 作为早期海外中国研究经典，具有开创性，但部分结论今看有局限。
- 史料详实，论证严谨，虽年代久远，仍具极高的学术参考价值。
精彩摘录
- "why did the Chinese Empire stay together when the Roman Empire, and every other empire of antiquity or the middle ages, ultimately collapsed?"
- "why did China after about 1350 fail to maintain her earlier pace of technological advance while still, in many respects, advancing economically?"
- "The growing market for grain was one of reasons for the consolidation of the manorial regime in Sung times;...It is unlikely that the manor owners would have been as interested as they were in better techniques if it had not been possible for them to sell the surplus... In any event, the evidence sh"
- "Tang records suggest that the Chinese had trouble building highways that did not become impassable in the summer rains. By Song times, however, not only were a good number of city streets paved with stone slabs, but surfacing intercity routes with bricks or stone seems to have been quite common."
- "The greatest economic impetus was given by the growth of river and canal shipping... In consequence, a number of hitherto separate waterway systems were now linked into an integrated whole, and formed the foundation for the nationwide market which emerged at this time."
- "What were the causes of this monetary revolution? One factor was the growing interdependence of the regional Chinese economies, based on the higher agricultural productivity and improved transport already described. ... Actions taken in the field of monetary policy by one government were apt to have"
- "The chief weakness of this rudimentary nationwide remittance system (regarding paper money) was that it worked in one direction only, from the capital to the provinces."
- "(因為坊市的嚴格規定，無法滿足農村的交換需求)a separate system of unofficial markets...gradually grew up in the countryside to cater for the needs of the farmers...The old system gave way during the ninth century to an era of vastly increased commercial freedom. ...The Chinese rural economy was becoming linked with the m"
用户评论
昨天看的..一半看不懂..剩下一半看懂了结合最近各类戏剧性文学性的伟大历史时刻，更加难受..想到CRRao的一句话...在终极的分析中，一切知识都是历史；在抽象的意义下全部科学都是数学；在理性的基础上所有判断都是统计。感到幸运的同时也很失望。祝福吧。
四十年前的书今天读来还是觉得耳目一新
如果说看过一两章也叫读过……
14th turning point
14th century turning point & Mongols were successful in paper money policy
伊懋可認為在中國歷史上曾經存在著一個“14世紀轉折點”，中國中古時期已經實現了商業革命(農業革命、貨幣信用體系革命、市場革命與科技革命)，但在14世紀後，中國經濟發展的內在理路與動力機制發生了變化，導致中古革命成果的喪失及未能在近代實現工業化，這正為Ricardo-Malthusian提供了一個前代例證。宋明轉折也是中國經濟史學界長期堅持的一種觀點，這涉及到如何評價明初經濟性質及認識13-15世紀江南農業發展狀況的問題。但土地面積與人口數據的缺失注定會對伊氏研究的解釋力形成衝擊，而且伊氏未考慮整個中國的生態多樣性，忽視了產權制度對經濟產出活動施加的種種約束，他認為產出才是經濟社會發展的關鍵標準甚至是唯一因素，無疑是有所偏頗的。其理論最根本的缺陷在於，宋代本就不存在農業革命，哪來的轉折呢？
对照黄宗智、李明珠，异曲同工，比后来的《大象的退却》写得好。
High level equilibrium trap 下次cold call一定得记住了
似仍非经济史？
读得太晚。现在看大部分观点都过时了。
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