司马迁在《史记》中,为出身布衣匹夫的“货殖”家立了《货殖列传》,肯定人们追求财富的合理性,宣扬了逐利求富的思想。班固站在儒家正统观念的立场上,把司马迁这种经济思想斥之为“崇势利而羞贫贱”(《汉书·司马迁传》)。如果我们去掉“崇势利而羞贫贱”的贬意,可以看到“崇势利而羞贫贱”恰好表现了司马迁卓然于群的经济眼光和进步的历史思想,所以我认为班固所说司马迁“崇势利而羞贫贱”是不恰当的,应该加以肯定。 Sima Qian set up a “Biography of Merchants” in the “Records of the Historians” for the “stockbreeding” of the commoner, and affirmed the rationality of people seeking wealth and declared the idea of ​​seeking wealth for profit. Banchu stood on the orthodoxy of Confucianism and dismissed Sima Qian’s economic thinking as “imperialism and shamelessness and poverty” (“Han Sima Biography”). If we remove the derogatory meaning of “suzerain and shamelessness and inferiority,” we can see that “supremacy and shamelessness and poverty” shows exactly the historical thinking of Sima Qian’s brilliant economic outlook and progress. Therefore, I think Ban Gu said that Sima Qian “ And shameless poverty ”is not appropriate, it should be affirmed.