Abstract

This article aims to create a model for the underlying economic logic of the feudal economy, which can then be contrasted with the much better-known models for the capitalist economy. It does so by developing a discussion of a very frequent pattern in pre-industrial, feudal, societies: active local economies with highly developed exchange, which never, even remotely, developed in the direction of capitalism. It is argued here that this is because they obeyed a different economic logic, rather than just a simpler version of the logic of the capitalist world, which was somehow ‘blocked’ from developing any further. The article then sets out the basic elements of what that logic could be.

中文翻译：

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封建经济如何运作？中世纪社会的经济逻辑

摘要

本文旨在为封建经济的潜在经济逻辑创建一个模型，然后将其与资本主义经济的更为知名的模型进行对比。它是通过对前工业化，封建社会中非常频繁的模式进行讨论来做到这一点的：活跃的地方经济体具有高度发达的交流，而这些国家甚至从来没有朝着资本主义的方向发展。这里有人争辩说，这是因为他们遵循了不同的经济逻辑，而不仅仅是资本主义世界逻辑的简单形式，而后者在某种程度上被“阻止”了进一步发展。然后，本文列出了该逻辑可能是的基本要素。