个人简介

翟润卓，牛津大学经济史博士，中国人民大学农业与农村发展学院副教授。研究方向和兴趣：历史经济增长，农业经济史，发展经济学等。博士论文获亚洲太平洋经济和商业史会议两年一届的最佳博士论文奖。主持、参与多项国家级科研项目。

代表性成果（英文）

1. Broadberry, Stephen, and Runzhuo Zhai. “Innovation and the great divergence.” The Economic History Review, (2026), 1-37. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.70151 （共同一作）

2. Zhai, Runzhuo. “Agricultural growth in the Yangzi Delta, 1393–1953.” Explorations in Economic History, (2026): 101763. （独立作者）

3. Luan, Xiaoyang, and Runzhuo Zhai. “Where ideas come from: experimenting on “The Spirit of Capitalism” in Medieval China.” Economic Development and Cultural Change, 74, no. 2 (2026): 455-489. （共同一作，通讯作者）

4. Zhai, Runzhuo. “Toward the great divergence: economic growth in the Yangzi Delta, 1393–1953.” Asia-Pacific Economic History Review, 65(1), (2025): 160–162.（独立作者）

5. Zhai, Runzhuo, and Zhaohui Lou. “Chinese agricultural output and TFP: 1661–2019.” Economics Letters 213 (2022): 110415. （第一作者）

代表性成果（中文）：

6.翟润卓，高原. “挖掘传统智慧 推进防灾减灾救灾体系建设.” 光明日报（理论版） 2026年6月2日.（第一作者）

7.翟润卓. “开中法与传统中国财政能力管窥.”光明日报（理论版） 2025年6月24日.（独立作者）

8.唐昱茵，高岭，翟润卓.“风起于青萍之末：大英帝国的黄昏 (1888–1913) 的新解释.”经济思想史学刊 04 (2023): 110-140.

9.高岭，翟润卓，唐昱茵.“马克思的劳动强度理论及其当代发展.”经济学家 1, no.7 (2022): 15-23.（通讯作者）

工作论文：

10.Zhai, Runzhuo, and Yuan Gao. “Two millennia of Chinese economic growth.” CQH Working Paper No. 0007, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5750762 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5750762 (Journal of Economic Growth, Revise and Resubmit)

11.Gao, Yuan, Runzhuo Zhai, and Zichuan Zhao. “The familial origins of human risk preferences: evidence from the biographies of military commanders in two millennia of Chinese history.” (Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations, Revise and Resubmit)

12.Zhai, Runzhuo. “Dating the Great Divergence.” (Modern China, Revise and Resubmit)

13.Gao, Wenwan, Yuan Gao, and Runzhuo Zhai. “A hidden retreat: market confidence and agricultural decline in early 20th-Century China.” (Economic History Review, Reject and Resubmit)

14.Hu, Sijie, Xinyu Liu, and Runzhuo Zhai. “The micro-evidence for the Malthusian system: China, 1350–1900.” (Under Review)

15.Hu, Sijie, Runzhuo Zhai, and Zichuan Zhao. “Agriculture curse and delayed modernization.” (Under Review)

16.Gao, Ling, Yuyin Tang, and Runzhuo Zhai. “Did an industrious revolution happen in China? A survey towards Chinese working class, 1680-2012.” (Under Review)

17.Gao, Ling, Dic Lo, Yuyin Tang, and Runzhuo Zhai. “Workers’ “medal”: a reassessment of the sources of growth in the postwar capitalist “golden age”.” (Under Review)

其他写作（书评或著作章节）

18.Zhai, Runzhuo. “The logic of usury: the market mechanisms in private lending in the Qing and Republican eras: by LIN Zhan, Beijing, Social Sciences Academic Press, 2021, ISBN 9787030687296.” Journal of Modern Chinese History, 16(2), (2022): 311-312. （书评）

19. Guan, Hanhui, Debin Ma, and Runzhuo Zhai. “Fiscal revenue in Ming and Qing China (1368–1911 CE): a quantification.” 受邀供稿于由Zhiwu Chen, Cameron Campbell和Debin Ma主编的Springer出版社出版的Quantitative History of China: State Capacity, Institutions and Development一书，2025. （共同一作，通讯作者）

20.Zhai, Runzhuo. “Historical national accounting in China: history, methodology, and boundaries.” 受邀供稿于由Kaixiang Peng和Ziang Liu主编的Palgrave Macmillan出版社出版的Measuring Early Modern and Modern Chinese Economy: Data, Method, and Limit一书，Forthcoming. （独立作者）

主讲课程

本科课程：社会科学研究方法、经济史 Ⅰ（中国经济史）、读史读经典 

研究生课程：农业经济史论专题

审稿服务

Economic History Review, Explorations in Economic History, European Review of Economic History, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Population Economics, Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, 《清史研究》等。