经济史

本科生全英文课程

山东大学经济学院

授课教师：马驰骋

电子信箱：macc@sdu.edu.cn

课程描述：

本课程讲授世界经济史，侧重于过去一千年以来中西方之间经济发展的比较分析。在简要介绍中国和世界经济发展简史后，课程内容将转向经济史学界的重要研究课题，包括：地理大发现及哥伦布交换所带来的长期经济影响，工业革命的起源及其后果，16世纪后欧洲的崛起，李约瑟之谜（16世纪后中国的停滞），新教伦理与儒家文化的历史作用，以及1840年以来中国的近代转型。

课程形式:

课程将采用教师讲授与学生研讨相结合的形式。学生在上课前需阅读指定材料，并鼓励参与课堂讨论。

课程材料：

参考教材为A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present(2002) by Rondo Cameron and Larry Neal, New York: Oxford University Press。另外，课程材料还包括论文和其它著作章节（见课程大纲中的阅读材料）。课程材料影印电子版将在课前上传至课程网站(www.course.sdu.edu.cn)，同时会发送到每位同学的电子信箱。

学生成绩:

最终成绩包括三部分：课堂参与(20%)，短论文(30%)，和期末考试(50%)。其中，课堂参与包括学生在课堂上回答问题和对某一问题的讨论，以及对一篇指定论文进行评论并在课堂上进行报告。短论文是指学生对指定学术论文进行的评述，包括综述（文章的研究问题、主要理论假设、研究方法以及主要结论）和学生自己做出的评价两部分；共有两篇短论文要求提交，每篇论文的长度不超过两页纸（WORD，A4）。期末考试为闭卷，考题范围为课程大纲中的指定阅读材料。

课程大纲与阅读材料

1. 世界经济简史

Nunn, Nathan. 2009. “The Importance of History for Economic Development.”Annual Review of Economics, 1(1): 65-92.

Clark, Gregory. 2007.A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J

Maddison, Angus. 2001.The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective. Paris, France: Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

2. 中国的过去

Elvin, Mark. 1973.The Pattern of the Chinese Past: A Social and Economic Interpretation. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Wakeman, Frederic E. 1975.The Fall of Imperial China. New York: Free Pres.

Perkins, Dwight H. 1969.Agricultural Development in China, 1368-1968.Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Brook, Timothy. 1998.The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China. Berkeley: University of California Press.

3. 地理大发现

Findlay, Ronald, and Kevin H. O’Rourke. 2007.Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

O’Rourke, Kevin H., and Jeffrey G. Williamson. 2002. “After Columbus: Explaining Europe’s Overseas Trade Boom, 1500-1800.”Journal of Economic History, 62 (2): 417-456.

Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson. 2005. “The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth.”American Economic Review, 95: 546-579.

Wills, John E. 1993. “Maritime Asia, 1500-1800: The Interactive Emergence of European Domination.”American Historical Review. 98 (1): 83-105.

Kung, James K., and Chicheng Ma. 2012. “Voyages of Discovery and the Rise of Piracy in Sixteenth-Century China.” Working paper.

4. 哥伦布交换

Nunn, Nathan, and Nancy Qian. 2010. “The Columbian Exchange: A History of Disease, Food, and Ideas.”Journal of Economic Perspectives, 24 (2): 163–88.

Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson. 2002. Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution.Quarterly Journal of Economics. November.

Nunn, Nathann and Nancy Qian. 2011. “The Potato’s Contribution to Population and Urbanization: Evidence from a Historical Experiment.”Quarterly Journal of Economics, 126 (2): 593-650.

Nunn, Nathan. 2008. “The Long Term Effects of Africa’s Slave Trades.”Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123 (1): 139-176.

5. 工业革命与欧洲的崛起

Clark, Gregory. 2007.A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J

Mokyr, Joel. 1990.The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress. New York: Oxford University Press. Chapter 5.

North, Douglass C., and Robert P. Thomas. 1973.The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Chapter 8 and 12.

Acemoglu, Daron, and James A. Robinson. 2012.Why Nations Fail: the Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. New York: Crown Publishers. Chapters 6 and 10.

6. 李约瑟之谜：为什么中国没有发生工业革命

Landes, David S. 2006. “Why Europe and the West? Why Not China?”Journal of Economic Perspectives, 20 (2): 3-22.

Pomeranz, Kenneth. 2000.The Great Divergence: Europe, China, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Lin, Justin Yifu. 1995. “The Needham Puzzle: Why the Industrial Revolution Did Not Originate in China.”Economic Development and Cultural Change, 43 (2): 269-92.

7. 新教伦理与儒家文化

Weber, Max. 1904/05 [1930].The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. London: Allen & Unwin, 1930.

Weber, Max. 1922.The Religion of China: Confucianism and Taoism. New York: Free Press.

Greif, Avner, and Guido Tabellini. 2010.“Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared.”AER Papers & Proceedings, 100 (2): 1–10.

Yang, C. K. 1961.Religion in Chinese Society: A Study of Contemporary Social Functions of Religion and Some of Their Historical Factors. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1961.

Yu, Yingshi. 1987.Zhongguo jinshi zongjiao lunli yu shangren jingshen (Chinese Religious Ethic and the Spirit of Merchants). Taipei: Lian jing chu ban shi ye gong si.

8. 现代化的扩散

Mokyr, Joel. 1990.The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress. New York: Oxford University Press. Chapter 10.

Acemoglu, Daron, and James A. Robinson. 2012.Why Nations Fail: the Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty. New York: Crown Publishers. Chapter 9.

Acemoglu, Daron, Davide Cantoni, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson. 2011. “The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution.”American Economic Review, 101: 3286–3307.

9. 近代中国的经济转型

Spence, Jonathan D. 1990.The Search for Modern China. New York: Norton.

Rawski, Thomas. 1989.Economic Growth in Prewar China. Berkerly, CA: University of California Press.

Bai, Ying, and James K. Kung. 2011. “Diffusing Knowledge While Spreading God’s Message: Protestantism and Economic Prosperity in China, 1840-1920.” Working paper, HKUST.

Jia, Ruixue, 2012. “The Legacies of Forced Freedom: China’s Treaty Ports.”The Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.