在19世纪即将结束之际,阿尔弗雷德·马歇尔(Alfred Marshall)在一篇题为“老一代经济学家和新一代经济学家”的经济理论的回顾性评论中写道,“连接着即将结束他们学术活动的老一代经济学家的是,他们坚持的工作已经摆在了即将到来的新一代经济学家面前”(马歇尔,1897,第115页)。在20世纪末的现在,我们也可以尝试对发展经济学家做一个类似的回顾性评论。 At the close of the 19th century, Alfred Marshall wrote in a retrospective review of economic theory entitled “Old-generation Economists and Next Generation Economists, ”Connecting the older generation of economists who are about to end their academic activities is that the work they insist on is already before the coming generation of economists" (Marshall, 1897, p. 115). At the end of the 20th century, we can also try to give a similar retrospective comment on development economists.