该书简要呈现了长达三百多年的经济思想史,回顾了17世纪以来人类的发展历程。由两部分构成:“古典政治经济学(1600~1870年)”和“现代发展(1870~1960年)”。第一部分以“剩余理论”的发展作为线索。其中,重商主义者强调贸易,认为剩余来源于贵金属形式的贸易顺差;而重农主义者认为,剩余来源于自然的生产力,只能在农业领域产 The book presents a brief history of economic thought for up to 300 years and reviews the history of human development since the 17th century. It consists of two parts: “Classical Political Economy (1600 ~ 1870)” and “Modern Development (1870 ~ 1960)”. The first part takes the development of “Residual Theory ” as a clue. Among them, mercantilists emphasize trade and think the surplus comes from the trade surplus in the form of precious metals; while the farmer believes that the remaining productive forces derived from nature can only be produced in the agricultural field