Solow in the Tropics
回顾了索洛增长模型在发展经济学中的应用与演变，指出其与贸易扭曲理论共同推动了1980年后新古典发展经济学在世界银行的主导地位。
Although Robert Solow never applied his neoclassical growth model to an underdeveloped country, neither did he ever exclude underdeveloped countries from its scope. For a generation, the model's use to predict worldwide convergence in levels of per capita income provided the main link from growth theory to development economics. In the last two decades, augmented Solow models, endogenous growth models, and exercises in development accounting have proliferated. Nevertheless, it is argued, the formalization of development economics and the post-1980 dominance of neoclassical development economics at the World Bank were driven as much by the theory of trade distortions as by the revival of interest in growth models and growth accounting.