尼古拉斯·拉迪(Nicholas R.Lardy),这个名字是中国经济学者普遍熟悉的.他是美国西雅图华盛顿大学亨利·杰克逊国际研究学院院长,久负盛名的美国中国问题专家.今年8月,拉迪教授应邀访问上海,曾就中国经济改革的成就、问题和对策提出了一系列中肯的意见.本刊择要刊载于后,以便读者进一步了解这位中国人民老朋友的基本观点. Nicholas R. Lardy, widely known to Chinese economists, is the prestigious American China expert dean of the Henry Jackson Institute for International Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle, and in August of this year Professor Larry He was invited to visit Shanghai and put forward a series of pertinent views on the achievements, problems and solutions of China’s economic reform, which we hope will be published in the future so that our readers will have a better understanding of the basic point of view of this old Chinese friend.