《货币之溯源》(The Ascent Of Money)的作者尼尔·弗格森(Niall Ferguson)对莫里斯原著的评论是,这是最接近历史统一场论的一本书(The nearest thing to a unified field theory of history we are ever likely to get),因该书试图分析并综合长期决定论与短期偶然论这两种对立的理论。显然,莫里斯的著作需要解释中国为何没有出现工业革命,后续若干章节中将会分析。简而言之,这和经济有极大关系,因此可对比我国经济学界于中国古代经济史的研究。
[1] 侯家驹,《中国经济史》(新星出版社,2010年)
[2] 齐涛,《中国古代经济史》(山东大学出版社,2011年)
[3] Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (New York: Bantam Classics, 2003)
[4] "The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups", Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1979)
[5] Nouriel Roubini & Stephen Mihm, Crisis Economics (New York: Penguin Books, 2011)