15～18世纪中西国际贸易体系之差异与“大分流”

Difference between Chinese and Western International Trade System from Fifteenth to Eighteenth Century and the Great Divergence

本文对15～18世纪西欧资本主义世界贸易体系和传统中国的朝贡贸易体系进行比较,认为由于西方和中国社会面临不同的发展环境,所以两种体系构筑的思想、国家与商人的关系以及两种体系得以建立和维持的方式存在差异。正是这种差异,导致西欧能够获得国际贸易中的"生态横财",而传统中国失去发展的机遇,最终出现了中西社会的"大分流"。

This paper compares western capitalism international trade system and China＇s tributary trade system from fifteenth to eighteenth century. It makes the argument that there are fundamental differences between Chinese and western development circumstances, economical thought, relation between state and merchants, and the system mode of establishment and maintaining. These differences are the cause of the great divergence.