The Presentist Bias: Ahistoricism, Equity, and International Development in the 1970s
研究1970年代发展思想从强调增长和工业化的现代化模板转向直接关注减贫，指出公平倡导者培养的新形式当下主义继续忽视发展中国家的本地历史，加剧了发展实践的技术和非历史偏见。
Abstract This article examines development thinking in the 1970s, when modernisation templates stressing growth and industrialisation gave way to a direct concern for relieving poverty. Although this new direction broke with development paradigms that presented Western history as a model for universal emulation, equity advocates cultivated new forms of presentism that continued to overlook the local histories of developing nations. An increased sense of the ethical urgency of development and demands for immediate practical action hardened the technical and ahistorical biases of development practice.