内容简介
《商业性质概论》是18世纪经济学家理查德·坎蒂隆的代表作,被誉为古典政治经济学的重要奠基之作。本书以商业社会的运行机制为核心,系统探讨了财富的来源、分配与流通,货币的性质与作用,以及人口、土地、贸易等经济要素之间的内在联系。
坎蒂隆在书中首次提出了“企业家”概念,并深入分析了企业家在不确定环境下承担风险、推动经济活动的关键角色。他强调土地是一切财富的源泉,劳动则赋予其价值,同时通过货币流通和市场价格机制,揭示了经济循环的规律。
本书还讨论了国际贸易、银行信用、利息与赋税等主题,对后来的亚当·斯密、重农学派及奥地利学派产生了深远影响。作为汉译世界学术名著丛书之一,此版本附有外研社双语读库的中英对照,便于读者对照研读经典原文。
全书逻辑严谨、论述精辟,既是一部经济学理论经典,也是理解近代商业社会起源与发展的重要文献。对于经济学研究者、学生以及对经济思想史感兴趣的读者,本书具有不可替代的学术价值。
目录
Chapter 1 Of wealth
Chapter 2 Of human societies
Chapter 3 Of villages
Chapter 4 Of market towns
Chapter 5 Of cities
Chapter 6 Of capital cities
Chapter 7 The labour of the husbandman is of less value than that of the handicrafts-man
Chapter 8 Some handicrafts-men earn more, others less, according to thedifferent cases and circumstances
Chapter 9 The number of labourers, handicrafts-men and others, who work in a state is naturally proportioned to the demandfor them
Chapter 10 The price and intrinsic value of a thing in general is the measure of the land and labour which enter into its production
Chapter 11 Of the par or relation between the value of land and labour
Chapter 12 All classes and individuals in a state subsist or are enriched at the expense of the proprietors of land
Chapter 13 The circulation and exchange of goods and merchandise as well as their production are carried on in Europe by undertakers, and at a risk
Chapter 14 The fancies, the fashions, and the modes of living of the prince, and especially of the landowners, determine the use to which land is put in a state and cause the variations in the market prices of all things
Chapter 15 The increase and decrease of the number of people in a state chiefly depend on the taste, the fashions, and the modes of living of the proprietors of land
Chapter 16 The more labour there is in a state the more naturally rich the state is esteemed
Chapter 17 Of metals and money, and especially of gold and silver
Part II
Chapter 1 Of barter
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