From Anxiety to Nonchalance
探讨新古典经济学如何从1950年代被认为不适用于发展中国家，到四十多年后华盛顿共识将其核心原则重新推广的过程，分析障碍如何被清除。
Neoclassical economic development is the view that there exists a core set of theoretical propositions that define all economic problems—whether for developed or developing countries—and even guide us toward the solutions. Details from local circumstances may need to be filled in, but these are boundary conditions for a general solution. When development economics began in the 1950s, it was rare to find economists who espoused the direct applicability of such views. Some forty years later, when the Washington Consensus triumphed with its mantra of “stabilize, liberalize, privatize,” it was breathing new life into older ideas. Why were obstacles seen in applying eighteenth-century principles in 1950, and how was the path for their applicability cleared?