Development, Geography, and Economic Theory
Development, Geography, and Economic Theory
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10.2307/144349
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发表时间：
1995-09
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P. Krugman
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作者：
P. Krugman
为什么某些观点在经济学中广泛流传，而其他观点却被弃之不用呢？保罗·克鲁格曼认为，主流经济学家不愿思考他们无法形式化的内容，这导致他们忽视了一些事后看来非常好的观点。克鲁格曼研究了经济地理学和发展理论的发展历程，以阐明经济探究的本质。他追溯了发展理论是如何在其许多主要见解无法被清晰地建模之后失去了最初的影响力，并在结尾对进一步探究最有前景的领域进行了评论。
Why do certain ideas gain currency in economics while others fall by the wayside? Paul Krugman argues that the unwillingness of mainstream economists to think about what they could not formalize led them to ignore ideas that turn out, in retrospect, to have been very good ones. Krugman examines the course of economic geography and development theory to shed light on the nature of economic inquiry. He traces how development theory lost its initial influence after it became clear that many of the theory's main insights could not be clearly modeled, and concludes with a commentary on areas where further inquiry looks most promising.