Quantifying Economic Development
聚焦西蒙·库兹涅茨和霍利斯·钱纳里在量化经济发展与结构转型中的贡献，前者用国民收入框架分析发达国家长期增长，后者用跨国截面数据揭示发展模式及其差异来源。
The post–World War II period saw the reemergence of growth and development as key fields of inquiry. Initially, both growth and development studies emphasized grand theories with little or no empirical basis. This article focuses on the contribution of two central players in the quantifying of economic development and structural transformation: Simon Kuznets and Hollis Chenery. Kuznets brought the national income framework to bear on the process of growth and structural transformation in, primarily, more-developed countries, with data stretching back to the early phases of the process of modern economic growth. Chenery relied on cross-sectional data to derive patterns of development and their main sources of intercountry variation in an economy-wide, disaggregated framework.