《货殖列传》是史学之父司马迁专述经济的史篇,它充分反映出司马迁的社会经济思想。司马迁以朴素的唯物思想去观察社会的经济活动,指出社会经济自身发展的规律,提出了反对抑商的盐铁专卖、实行经济放任等政策的主张,他朴素地认识到了社会财富占有的多寡决定人们的社会地位以及由此产生的社会的道德观念。封建社会前期,象这样详尽地、较客观地对商品经济进行闸述的史学家,是极为少见的。 “Biography of goods” is the history of the first chapter of Sima Qian's economic history, which fully reflects Sima Qian's socio-economic thinking. Sima Qian observes social economic activities with simple materialism, points out the law of self-development of the social economy, puts forward the proposition of opposing salt-iron monopoly of restraining merchants and implementing the policy of economic laissez-faire, etc. He simply understands the amount of social wealth possession People's social status and the resulting social moral values. In the early days of feudalism, it was extremely rare for such historians to elaborately and objectively report on the commodity economy.