The Birth of Development Economics
描述了1950年代发展经济学的诞生与早期发展,揭示其核心概念的欧洲起源及全球传播,并探讨该学科兴起与英美霸权更替的联系,以及1960-70年代的学科危机。
This article describes the birth and early trajectory of development economics during the 1950s. It shows the European origins of many core concepts of development economics and how they acquired global currency. The article also discusses the links between the birth of the new disciplinary field of development economics and the hegemonic shift between Britain and the United States in the central decades of the twentieth century. Finally, it describes the crisis of the discipline between the 1960s and 1970s.