题目：“The dynamics of market integration in China, 1736-1911”
报告人： 香港科技大学社会科学部顾艳峰博士
讲座主持：上海对外贸易学院国际经贸学院 副院长 赵红军 教授
主办机构：上海对外贸易学院国际经贸学院
时间：2013年6月2日上午10点—12点
地点：上海市松江区文翔路1900号 上海对外贸易学院学院楼B312
讲座概要：
Why did China not follow the European path of modern economic growth? Conventional wisdom in economic history mainly comes from the comparison between China and Europe before the onset of the Industrial Revolution. Yet the existing literature suffers from a paradox: some scholars emphasized the differences between the two regions and observed that when Europe initially industrialized, China experienced a long stagnation at the subsistence level; while others focused on the similarities and suggested that the two regions displayed no substantial differences in terms of economic development. Given the key role of trade in the modern economic growth, I explore the dynamics of market development in China during 1736-1911. The research shows that the 18th-and-19th-century China witnessed a robust U-shaped trend of market development, namely, market integration in China declined in the 18th and the early 19th centuries; while the market reintegrated in the second half of the 19th century. The findings suggest that when Europe initially industrialized in the 18th and the early 19th centuries, Chinese market integration was deteriorating, yet recovered to the pre-recession level until the mid-19th century.
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报告人： 香港科技大学社会科学部顾艳峰博士
讲座主持：上海对外贸易学院国际经贸学院 副院长 赵红军 教授
主办机构：上海对外贸易学院国际经贸学院
时间：2013年6月2日上午10点—12点
地点：上海市松江区文翔路1900号 上海对外贸易学院学院楼B312
讲座概要：
Why did China not follow the European path of modern economic growth? Conventional wisdom in economic history mainly comes from the comparison between China and Europe before the onset of the Industrial Revolution. Yet the existing literature suffers from a paradox: some scholars emphasized the differences between the two regions and observed that when Europe initially industrialized, China experienced a long stagnation at the subsistence level; while others focused on the similarities and suggested that the two regions displayed no substantial differences in terms of economic development. Given the key role of trade in the modern economic growth, I explore the dynamics of market development in China during 1736-1911. The research shows that the 18th-and-19th-century China witnessed a robust U-shaped trend of market development, namely, market integration in China declined in the 18th and the early 19th centuries; while the market reintegrated in the second half of the 19th century. The findings suggest that when Europe initially industrialized in the 18th and the early 19th centuries, Chinese market integration was deteriorating, yet recovered to the pre-recession level until the mid-19th century.
欢迎感兴趣的教师以及研究生参加！