[组织经济学Seminar]Culture Matters: Confucian Norms and Peasant Rebellions in Late Imperial China
发文时间:2012-03-26

中国人民大学企业与组织研究中心

组织经济学Seminar

【2012S02】

组织经济学(Organizational Economics)Seminar由中国人民大学企业与组织研究中心(CFOS)主办。CFOS的宗旨是,利用现代经济学方法研究中国的企业、政府、市场和非营利组织的重大问题,推动企业理论、契约理论和制度经济学的研究与教学。关注CFOS,请访问http://CFOS.ruc.edu.cn

时间:2012年3月28日(周三)12:00-13:30

地点:明德主楼734会议室

主讲:马驰骋

主题Culture Matters: Confucian Norms and Peasant Rebellions in Late Imperial China

摘要:This paper seeks to understand the possible effect of a persistent culture on conflict attenuation in the historical context of an agrarian society. We test the hypothesis that, by honoring subordination and imposing shame on violators of the social order, Confucianism effectively attenuated peasant rebellions in the nearly 300 years of China’s last dynastic rule (the Qing Dynasty, circa 1644-1911). While economic shocks, proxied by crop failure, do give rise to more peasant rebellions, Confucian norms, measured both by the number of temples built in a county to honor Confucius and his followers and the number of chaste women who sacrificed for their deceased husbands, are found to mitigate the effect of crop failure. In light of the persistence of culture we identify the causal impact of Confucianism by exploiting variation in the number of ancient Confucian sages that our sample counties were differentially bestowed over a long period (from 500BC to 1643), which is highly correlated with Confucian norms in the period of our interest but otherwise unrelated to peasant rebellions.


演讲者简介:马驰骋,现为香港科技大学社会科学部博士后研究员。他于2011年获得香港科技大学经济学博士学位,主要研究领域为经济史、发展经济学和政治经济学,其博士论文题目为《冲突经济学:中国历史上的海盗及农民起义》(Essays on Economics of Conflicts: Piracy and Peasant Rebellions in Historical China)。

项目协调人:聂辉华

中国人民大学经济学院

人大企业与组织研究中心

2012年3月25日