The Growth Concept, Decolonization, and the Global Cold War: A Study of Economic Ideas and Twentieth-Century International History
强调将经济思想史与二十世纪国际史联系起来的重要性，指出二战后非殖民化、冷战两极化和美国霸权为增长概念（如GNP、GDP）的政治普及创造了条件，并呼吁经济思想史学家与国际政治史学家加强合作。
Abstract This essay stresses the importance of connecting histories of economic thought with twentieth-century international history. It draws on recent scholarship from both fields related to the history of economic growth measured by statistical aggregates such as gross national product (GNP) and gross domestic product (GDP) to argue that interrelated structural changes of the international system during and after World War II — global decolonization, the ossifying bipolarity of the Cold War world, and the maintenance of US global hegemony—created the conditions for the growth concept to gain a broader political purchase. Yet the essay also shows that international historians have often overlooked the intellectual history of key economic ideas and debates among experts over how to conceptualize and construct the models and metrics that policymakers adopted. The essay concludes by encouraging closer connections between historians of economic thought and the international political history of the twentieth-century world.