以下是文贯中教授在上财经济学院经济史学系《经济史专题》中关于李约瑟之谜的部分参考文献，文贯中教授关于李约瑟之谜有专门的论文，对此感兴趣的同学的同学可以找来读一下。

I.                   李约瑟之谜的经济地理学解释

1.      文献回顾

2.      经济地理学的观点

3.      赫克谢-俄林模型的经济地理学

参考文献

A.    Institutional Change and Long-term Economic Development: A Comparative Historical Analysis on the   Differences in Market Expansion and Economic Dynamic Development between the Pre-modern Europe and China, co-authored with M. Hua, W. Li, Y. Zhang, Shanghai: Fudan University Press, June 2006.

B.     关于地缘经济学（geoeconomics）：http://conspecte.com/Geoeconomics/geoeconomics-in-relation-to-evolutionary-theory.html

C.     Guns, germs, and steel, the fates of human societies
Jared Diamond. Published 2003 by W.W. Norton in New York.

D.    Justin Lin: The Needham Puzzle: Why the industrial revolution did not originate in China. Economic Development and Cultural Change; Jan 1995; 43, 2; pg. 269-292.

http://www3.nccu.edu.tw/~jthuang/Needham.pdf

E.     “Why Was China Trapped in an Agrarian Society--An Economic Geographical Approach to th e Needham Puzzle”, Frontiers of Economics in China, Vol. 6, No. 4, Dec. 2011, 507-534.