【摘要】 《罗马—拜占庭经济史》特别强调的"中产阶级决定论"不符合罗马—拜占庭历史发展的实际,该书确定的这一概念与拜占庭史料中的类似提法含义完全不同,也与拜占庭学术界的相关研究结论有很大区别,故而该书自说自话定义的拜占庭"中产阶级"并不符合拜占庭历史发展的实际。这一脱离了拜占庭经济史客观发展实际的观点之所以形成,关键在于该书的研究方法不是历史学的,而是经济学的。那种预先设定模型,而后填充史实的方法并不适合拜占庭经济史研究,其关于罗马—拜占庭经济发展的"中产阶级决定论"也不能成立。特别是该书未能认识到古代经济活动与现代经济活动的本质区别,误将工业文明主导的某种经济活动现象与以农为本的经济活动相混淆,因此既不能看到两种经济结构内在的差异性,也不能识别两种经济结构中多种貌似相同要素之间的不同。更多还原

【Abstract】 The book A History of Roman-Byzantine Economy emphasizes the theory "determinism of the middle class" in the Roman-Byzantine economic development. However, the theory does not conform with the fact of the Byzantine economic history. First of all its basic conception "the middle class" is an author’s imagination, without any demonstration from the Byzantine historical materials and modern scholars’ academic viewpoints. Secondly, author as a famous economist does not draws his conclusion with the historical method rather than the economic method, which is "theory model-factsconclusion" but "facts-objective law-conclusion". Thirdly, the more important thing is author’s confusion of the fundamental differences between the pre-industrial economic activities and the industrial economic phenomenon, that is, he ignores the enormous and basic differences of the Industrial Ages and the Agricultural Ages. The book’s conclusion is irrational and incorrect.更多还原