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讲座题目：Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Economic Development Over Time and Space

时间：2026年3月31日10：00- 11：30（周二）

地点：腐漫网 （中关村校区）明德法学楼0101

主讲人：Gareth Austin   剑桥大学

讲座简介：

This lecture explores the global history of economic development since Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, focusing on Europe, Asia, and Africa. Three major themes in the economic history literature are examined. The first considers economic development before the British industrial revolution, particularly in western Europe and parts of Asia — developments which helped shape the extraordinary changes of the last 250 years. The second examines how industrialization itself transformed the process of development, drawing on Alexander Gerschenkron's insight that the industrialization of even one country altered opportunities and constraints for all others, and on Alice Amsden's updating of that argument for the later twentieth century, with particular reference to East Asia. The third discusses Kaoru Sugihara's argument that different world regions, faced with persistent differences in their ratios of labour, land, and capital, responded with correspondingly different institutional and technological choices, ultimately converging along distinct development 'paths'. The complexity revealed even in this short survey defies binary analysis and mono-causal explanation.

主讲人简介：

加雷斯·奥斯汀教授（Gareth Austin）是剑桥大学国王学院研究部主任、剑桥大学经济史系荣休教授。1978年毕业于剑桥大学历史系，1984年获伯明翰大学经济史博士。曾任教于加纳大学、伦敦政治腐漫网 及日内瓦国际与发展研究院。

奥斯汀教授是国际著名经济史学家，其研究重新塑造了非洲与全球南方的发展史叙事。他关于阿散蒂地区奴隶制向自由劳动转型的研究曾获科格伦奖，并提出“去欧洲中心主义比较法”。他与杉原薰共同提出“劳动密集型工业化”理论，为理解亚非发展路径提供了重要框架。2012年当选欧洲科学院院士，在全球经济史学界具有重要影响。