追寻西欧市场经济的中世纪起源——评徐浩著《中世纪西欧工商业研究》

Exploring the Medieval Origin of Market Economy in Western Europe:A Review of Xu Hao’s Study on Industry and Commerce in Medieval Western Europe

徐浩著《中世纪西欧工商业研究》一书,旨在探讨中世纪中期开始西欧如何和为何逐步走上市场经济的道路。该书将社会转型问题从资本主义的起源转换为市场经济的兴起,在理论上充分吸收了经济学的历史经济学理论和经济社会史的商业化理论,着眼于中世纪西欧工商业史中一系列既独立又相互依托的重要专题,探讨中世纪西欧工商业存在和发展的特定历史环境、商业诸问题以及工业诸问题。该书的研究特色体现为对中世纪西欧作长时段的考察,关注普通民众的命运,研究方法上注重比较,主张对社会经济变化的原因作多视角的阐释。

Xu Hao’s book Study on Industry and Commerce in Medieval Western Europe aims to explore how and why Western Europe gradually took the road of market economy since the High Middle Ages.This book changes the problem of transformation from the origin of capitalism to the rise of market economy,and fully absorbs the economists’theory of historical economics and the commercial theory of economic-social historians.Focusing on a series of independent and interdependent topics,this book explores the specific historical backgrounds,commercial issues and industrial topics.The book’s features are embodied in a long-term survey of medieval Western Europe,a concern for the fate of the general public,a focus on comparisons in research methods,and a multi-perspective interpretation of the causes of social and economic changes.