上海人民出版社的范蔚文先生日前打电话来,希望我能为奥尔森教授的《权力与繁荣》一书写一篇导读。老实讲,对此我很犹豫,因为关于奥尔森的文章,我先后写过几篇,其中的一篇还特别提及这部他去世两年后出版的书。令我犹豫的另一个原因是,奥尔森在马里兰大学的同事查尔斯·卡德威? Mr. Fan Weiwen from Shanghai People’s Publishing House called recently and hoped that I could write a guide for Professor Olson’s “Power and Prosperity.” Honestly, I was hesitant about this because I wrote a few articles on Olson, one of which made a special mention of the book that was published two years after he died. Another reason I hesitate is that Olsen, a colleague at the University of Maryland, Charles Cardway?