从后发优势视角看发展经济学的演化

Examining the Evolution of Development Economics From the Angle of "Advantage of Backwardness

从“后发优势”视角来理解和把握发展经济学的演进过程。从某种意义上说,发展经济学在很大程度上是随着对发展中国家后发优势及其对实现途径认识的不断深化而演进和发展的,其困境是由于未能找到将“落后”转变为“优势”的有效途径,其发展则是在不同思路的思想实验和发展实践中不断推进的。

Development Economics has experienced three stages during the half century since it was born: structuralism, neo-classical thinking and neo-classical political economics. Each stage is mutually independent in content and form. However, the relationship and internal logic of theoretical evolution have never been carefully discussed. The analysis only from the view of the relation of government and market, or from methodology, can only distinguish the theoretical system of the three stages but cannot reveal the internal connection of the three. This paper tries to understand and grasp the evolution of development economics from the point of 'advantage of backwardness' . In a sense, development economics is evolved with the deepening of the understanding of developing countries' advantage as later-comers.