由上海财经大学经济学系博士生导师胡寄窗教授撰写的英文版《中国经济思想史简编》(以下简称《简史》),是他的杰作《中国经济思想史》的一个摘要。全书共23章,572页。1988年由北京外文出版社出版。1990年美国《政治经济学史》杂志第4期上,美国学者詹姆斯·张作了如下述评。 A brief summary of the history of China's economic history by his English compendium, “A Brief History of Economic Thought in China” (hereinafter referred to as “Brief History”), written by Prof. Hu Hongzhu, a doctoral supervisor in the Department of Economics of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, The book consists of 23 chapters, 572 pages. Published by Beijing Foreign Language Publishing House in 1988. In the fourth issue of the U.S. History of Political Economy in 1990, the American scholar James Chang made the following comments.