中国社会经济史面临的挑战——回应《大分流》的“问题意识”

Challenge Chinese Social Economic History Study Confronts with——Response to Consciousness of Problem of Great Divergence

《大分流》的研究风格 ,不同于我们“政治经济学”色彩浓厚的“社会经济史”,呈现出的是经济史的“经济学化”,且有某种去“社会科学化”的隐喻。彭慕兰关于经济史应该循着经济自身的发展脉络 ,尊重经济发展自主性的思路 ,值得重视。但笔者认为 :随着中国社会经济史研究的进一步深入 ,既有《大分流》说的理论过剩的问题 ,但也有理论不足和理论偏颇的问题。我们没有必要割断重视制度分析的百年学术传统。总结数千年中国独特发展的经验材料 ,特别是百年以来 ,直至今日正在深入的经济改革实践 ,提升经济史理论水平的挑战 ,正摆在我们的面前。

The research style of Great Divergence is different rfom our social economic history study with the style of political economy and shows some characteristics of economy,or even has a metaphor of breaking away from soeial sciences.The research route it wantsto practice is that the analysis on economic history must throw off the criterion of old social theories by giving economic analysis an independent.But the great defect is that it placed the institutional analysis out of econonic history,which caused the tesult that his evaluation of social econonic situation is inconstant.