时间：2016/03/28，10:00-12:00

地点：威廉希尔一楼院史馆

主讲人：Guanglin LIU （刘光临）

主讲题目：The Chinese Market Economy,1000-1500

主讲人介绍:哈佛大学历史博士，香港科技大学人文学部副教授。研究领域:中国经济史，中国晚期帝制之政治经济。

内容摘要：Documents the rise and fall of a market economy in China from 1000–1500.Since theeconomic liberalization of the 1980s, the Chinese economy has boomed and ispoised to become the world’s largest market economy, a position traditional China held amillennium ago. William Guanglin Liu’s bold andfascinating book is the first to rely on quantitative methods to investigatethe early market economy that existed in China, making use of rare market andpopulation data produced by the Song dynasty in the eleventh century. Acounterexample comes from the century around 1400 when the early Ming courtdeliberately turned agrarian society into a command economy system. Thisradical change not only shrank markets, but also caused a sharp decline in theliving standards of common people. Liu’s landmark studyof the rise and fall of a market economy highlights important issues forcontemporary China at both the empirical and theoretical levels.