本課程旨在介紹明清制度經濟史的研究成果，由教師簡介各個重要主題的論著及相關史料，並引導學生參與討論。希望能在引導學生閱讀與討論相關論著的過程中，也能親近一些重要的歷史文獻。在講述與討論這些明清制度經濟史研究成果的同時，教師也會斟酌導入「經濟人類學」與「新制度經濟史」等相關問題意識與研究取徑，以增進學生對相關史料與論著的觸類旁通與深入理解。本課程將明清制度經濟史研究成果放入八大項主題：「研究範式轉移、財政結構與商貿體制、消費與權力、生計與產權、工作與規訓、市場與組織、風險與計算、市場演化」。藉由逐步熟悉明清制度經濟史研究的重要成果與具體爭論，一方面幫助同學理解明清經濟制度變遷的多元軌跡，另一方面也希望同學能夠更細緻地反思明清經濟變遷與近代資本主義發展之間的各種可能異同，儘可能地跳出許多人云亦云的刻板印象，以為深入理解甚至是日後自行考察明清經濟變遷做準備。

第一講 明清經濟史研究的範式轉移：何謂制度經濟史？
第二講 「數目字管理」是什麼？財政結構與商貿體制的變動
第三講 舒適、品味和時尚：市場與權力複寫下的消費
第四講 生計與產權：市場經濟下的法律變遷及正義措辭
第五講 工作時間和紀律規訓：勞動工序中的身份、階級與性別
第六講 市場與組織：字號/賬房/工廠的交易成本問題
第七講 風險的估量及轉換：個人與家、國的利益計算術
第八講 重探市場演化問題：明清經濟與法律研究的可能啟示

評量方式：學期分數包括平時成績(40%)與期末報告(60%)。

平時成績評分將以學生參與討論內容是否能夠反映其自行閱讀各講指定讀物的理解程度為主要標準。

期末報告篇幅約一萬五千至兩萬字之間，題目則需與任課教師事先商定。

核心教科書與主要參考書：
1.  許滌新、吳承明主編，1985，《中國資本主義發展史》第一卷《中國資本主義的萌芽》，北京：人民出版社。
2.  R. Bin Wong, 1997. China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. （王國斌，《轉變中的中國——歷史變遷與歐洲經驗的局限》，李伯重、連玲玲譯，上海：江蘇人民出版社，1998）
3.  李伯重，2000，《江南的早期工業化（1550-1850）》，北京：社會科學文獻出版社。
4.  方行、經君健、魏金玉主編，2000，《中國經濟通史‧清代經濟卷》，北京：經濟日報出版社。
5.  Kenneth Pomeranz, 2000. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. （彭慕蘭，《大分流：中國、歐洲與近代世界經濟的形成》，邱澎生、陳巨擘、張寧、連玲玲、巫仁恕、呂紹理、楊淑嬌、林美莉、劉士永譯，台北：巨流出版社，2004。另本中譯：《大分流：歐洲、中國及當代世界經濟的發展》，史建雲譯，南京：江蘇人民出版社，2003）
6.  科大衛，《近代中國商業的發展》，周琳、李旭佳譯，杭州：浙江大學出版社，2010。
7.  岸本美緒，《清代中國的物價與經濟波動》，劉迪瑞譯，胡連成審校，北京：社會科學文獻出版社，2010。
8.  Jean-Laurent Rosenthal and Bin Wong, Before and Beyond Divergence: The Politics of Economic Change in China and Europe, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011.
9.  范金民，《江南社會經濟史研究入門》，上海：復旦大學出版社，2012。

各講討論書文目錄： （以黃標字體者為「指定閱讀」，未黃標字體者為「自選閱讀」）
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