尽管存在农奴缺乏劳动积极性和监督管理困难的弊端,但农奴制在某些地区的历史上却曾广泛存在,有时还比租佃制更流行。农奴制的经济合理性何在?它何以实现?其兴衰有何规律?在国内学界对此类马克思主义传统史学课题渐趋冷淡之时,国外经济史 In spite of its lack of enthusiasm for labor and the scarcity of supervision and management, serfdom has existed in the history of some areas and sometimes even more prevalent than the tenancy system. Where is the economic rationality of serfdom? How does it come true? What is the law of its rise and fall? When the domestic academic circles are getting cold on such topics of traditional Marxist history, the economic history of foreign countries