Even in economics--where most people ascribe the earliest conception of the market economy to the 1776 work The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (l723-1790) -- there was earlier Chinese influence.
即使在經濟層面，一般人都以為「市場經濟」的概念最早是來自亞當．史密斯（Adam Smith,1723-1790）出版於一七七六年的《國富論》。