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The Elusive Quest for Growth
William Russell Easterly · 初版 2002 年
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经济学家帮助贫困国家改善经济福祉的尝试为何屡屡受挫。自第二次世界大战结束以来，经济学家一直在试图找出热带贫困国家如何达到接近欧美国家生活水平的方法。尝试过的补救措施包括提供外国援助、投资机器设备、促进教育、控制人口增长，以及发放援助贷款并以改革为条件免除这些贷款。这些解决方案无一如愿奏效。问题并不在于经济学的失败，Wi
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威廉·伊斯特利（W. Easterly）的《行善的诱惑》（The Elusive Quest for Growth）——大学时读的，当时想学发展（贫困、增长）经济学；它彻底改变了我看待贫困、经济学以及宏观政治的视角。同样它也帮我摒弃了……
The Elusive Quest for Growth by W. Easterly -- read it when I was in college hoping to study development (poverty, growth) economics; changed the way I look at poverty, economics and politics in general. Likewise I helped me ditch…
……“特许城市”（charter cities）这个想法真的和 MVP 有多大区别，所以还不清楚它打算怎么克服 MVP 遇到的那些阻碍。更新：这里引用了威廉·伊斯特利。他写过一本神作叫《行善的诱惑》（The Elusive Quest for Growth），探讨了历史上各类发展援助项目为何失败的许多反直觉原因。我强烈推荐。
…the "charter cities" idea really is that different than MVP and hence it's not clear how it will overcome the obstacles MVP faced. Edit: William Easterly is quoted here. He has an awesome book, "The Elusive Quest for Growth", that discusses a lot of non-intuitive reasons why development efforts have historically failed. I would highly recommend it.
……从小学生那会儿就听，听都听烦了。> 另外，我觉得巴西根本算不上什么特殊案例。没错，像大多数巴西人一样，我以前也以为巴西很特别。让我大开眼界的是《行善的诱惑》（The Elusive Quest for Growth）这本书，里面讲述了帮助很多国家摆脱贫困的尝试。大多数贫穷国家犯的错误都大同小异，我们根本不是什么例外。
…since elementary school, it's tiresome. > Also, I don't think Brazil is a special example at all. Yeah, like most Brazilians I used to think that Brazil was exceptional. The eye-opener was the book "The Elusive Quest for Growth", which describes efforts to bring many countries out of poverty. Most poor countries make similar mistakes, we're not an exception at all.
……其欠发达状态有着结构性原因。这是一个非常复杂的话题，学术界对它的关注也从不欠缺。我建议从威廉·伊斯特利的《行善的诱惑》（The Elusive Quest for Growth）开始读起。这里引用一段麻省理工学院出版社（MIT Press）的书评：> 经济增长所必需的，是政府激励措施能够引导人们对教育、医疗和法治等公共产品进行投资
…have structural reasons for why they are underdeveloped. This is a very complicated topic, and one for which there is no shortage of academic interest. I suggest starting from William Easterly's "The Elusive Quest for Growth". I quote here from the book review MIT Press: > What is necessary for growth is that government incentives induce investment in collective goods like education, health, and the rule of law
……你开始跳出单看教育的视角，看得更宽广一些。比如这样的 MOOC：http://www.mruniversity.com/courses/development-economics-0。书单很长，像《行善的诱惑：经济学家在热带地区的历险与曲折》（The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics）就可以作为入门读物。一旦深入这个领域，你就可以朝不同的方向探索。我坚信自己也会得出结论：单靠教育……
…you start view something more broad then just looking into education. A mooc like this: http://www.mruniversity.com/courses/development-economics-0 The list of books are very long. Something like "The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics" might be a starter. Once you get into the topic you can go in different direction. I am confident that I will also conclude that education by…
那是 40 年前的事了。我年轻上大学那会儿，在威廉·伊斯特利的《行善的诱惑》（The Elusive Quest for Growth）里读到过这场运动。它几乎彻底颠覆了我自以为学到的关于贫困和发展经济学的一切认知。
That was 40 years ago. I read about this movement from William Easterly's Elusive Quest for Growth when I was young, still in college. It changed almost everything I thought I learned about poverty and development economics.