1、引言经济发展理论产生于英国1650年前至1776年亚当·斯密《国富论》发表之间近一个半世纪中。本文的目的是探讨现代发展理论有多少能在18世纪的著作中找到。当然,1650年前有大量的著作,但是这些著作在主题和方法论上差别很大,只能由专门的思想史专家去研究。1650年前的一百年,学者们的目的是把经济生活和制度(特别是贸易、利息、利润、决策、占有私人财产的权利)同伦理和宗教结合起来,其方法来自圣经和早期的基督 1, Introduction The theory of economic development originated in England nearly a century and a half before the publication of Wealth of Nations from 1650 to 1776 Adam Smith. The purpose of this article is to explore how much of the theory of modern development can be found in eighteenth-century writings. There are, of course, a large number of writings before 1650, but theses vary greatly in their themes and methodologies, and can only be studied by special intellectual history experts. One hundred years before 1650, scholars aimed to combine economic lifestyles and institutions (especially trade, interest, profits, decision-making, possession of private property) with ethics and religion through the Bible and early Christ