八股之外：明清江南的教育及其对经济的影响其它经济学论文

【内容提要】在近代以前的社会中，教育对于经济发展到底具有何种影响？这是一个颇有争议的问题。本文以明清江南的情况为例，对此问题进行了讨论。本文对明清江南的精英教育及大众教育的内容（特别是读写能力和计算能力的培养）、教育对经济的影响进行了分析，指出与以往的看法相反，科举应试教育并非明清教育的全部，而明清江南教育的发展和普及对于明清江南经济的成长和江南经济成长模式的形成，起到了非常重要的作用。

【英文摘要】What role education played in pre-modern societies is an issue in dispute. The central theme of this case study is that the Bagu training， aiming at the civil examination and concentrateing dexclusively on the Confucian classics， did not tell the whole story of education in Jiangnan （the Yangzi Delta） during the Ming and Qing times. The author analyses the forms and contents of both elite and popular education in Ming-Qing Jiangnan， The article focuses on the acquirement of ability of reading， writing and calculating， which was key to the commercial and industrial activities， for the young people in all social strata. Finally， the author concludes that education not only played an important role in economic growth， but also in the shaping of the Jiangnan Pattern of economic growth.

【关 键 词】明清/江南/教育/经济

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