流动性扩展之链及其制度背景——对希克斯经济史理论的再解释

Extension of Fluidity and Its Institutional Background——a New Exposition of Hicks’s Theory of Economic History

希克斯的经济史理论是循着市场生发、演进这一主线而展开的。从另一个角度来看,这也意味着资源流动性在广度、深度层面上的不断扩展。然而,流动性扩展之链并不必然具有自洽自足的特性,在演进的每个环节上,实则都隐含着一个共同的前提,即制衡的、支持性的政治体制。西方世界的兴起在相当程度上得益于良性的政治体制,而后者正是经济发展过程中流动性得以扩散和提升的必要条件。

The essence of Hicks＇s theory of economic history is the formation and evolution of market, which, from a different perspective, means the extension of resource fluidity in both width and depth. However, the extension is unnecessarily self-contained by nature. A supportive and favorable political system is prerequisite to every link of extension chain. To a considerable extent, the rise of the western world profits from a benign political institution.