司马迁经济地理思想,通过《史记·货殖列传》得到集中反映,这一思想的形成,与当时社会经济发展的客观条件分不开。一司马迁生活的时代,是西汉王朝的鼎盛时期。其间高度的中央集权日益巩固,全国一统,国力殷实,“蓄积岁增,户口寝息”,政治稳定,经济繁荣。特别是经过汉初六、七十年的“休养生息”和“文景之治”后,交通大开,过去封闭保守的思想观念以及地区间 Sima Qian’s economic and geographical thoughts were reflected intensively through the “Records of Historical Records and Commodities”, and the formation of this thought was inseparable from the objective conditions of social and economic development at that time. A Sima Qian life era, is the heyday of the Western Han Dynasty. In the meantime, a high degree of centralization of power has been steadily consolidating. The country is unified and its national strength is affluent. It has accumulated political stability and economic prosperity. Especially after the sixth and seventy years of “Han Yang” and “Wen Jingzhi” in the early Han Dynasty, the traffic opened up and the past conservative ideas and inter-regional