The Quarrel of Policy Advisers That Became Development Experts: Currie and Hirschman in Colombia
回顾柯里和赫希曼1950年代在哥伦比亚国家规划委员会担任顾问时的争论,展示这段经历如何塑造了他们关于发展政策、顾问角色及政治经济障碍的理论。
Lauchlin Currie and Albert O. Hirschman worked together as advisers to the National Planning Council in Colombia in the 1950s. Both had little experience in development economics when they arrived, and did not see eye to eye about the functioning and policy recommendations of the council. Retracing their debates on internal and public issues using archival sources shows how the Colombian experience marked their views on the role of policy advisers, development policy, and the obstacles to development processes. Our main contribution is to show how this experience contributed to form their theories of development, which evolved from technical discussions on growth mechanics to the necessity of adopting a development strategy dealing with issues of political economy.