【主讲】刘光临 副教授 (香港科技大学)
【主题】The Chinese Market Economy, 1000-1400 （in Chinese）
【时间】2015年11月5日 (周四) 09：00-11：30
【地点】上海财经大学经济学院楼710室
【语言】中文
【摘要】After the Chinese government adopted economic policies toward an open market in the 1980s, this country has maintained a spectacular record in both market expansion and economic growth over the past thirty years. China is expected to be the largest market economy in the world in two decades. For the social scientist, this is an astonishingly successful story of development in our world. But viewed from a historical perspective, China is only regaining her leading position in the world economy that she had achieved a millennium ago. China's unusual market development challenges any historical theorization that presumes a linear economic progression. Hence, the historical account of the drastic rise and fall of her market economy from 1000 to 1500 becomes an essential chapter in world history.
Market expansion after 750 AD significantly transformed the Chinese economy and society. Toward the end of the eleventh century, China reached an unprecedented high level of commercial and income development under a state that relied on market forces in key areas of its governance. The Mongol conquest of China (1206-1279) and the subsequent rise of an autocratic regime in early Ming China from 1368 onward were the most devastating events that led to the lasting deterioration of her market economy until the mid-1500s. Consequently, the estimated living standards of the prosperous Lower Yangtze region dropped at least 50 percent between 1080 and 1400.
