本书首先介绍了1870年之前研究经济增长的经济学者，作者比较了休谟与亚当•斯密，马尔萨斯与李嘉图，约翰•穆勒与马克思。接着作者介绍了1870年至1939年的经济学理论家，包括熊彼特、科林•克拉克、库兹涅茨和哈洛德，并且分析了战后经济增长的三种模式。作者以权威的论点阐释了 经济增长领域中未解决的几大问题，并描述了未来几十年中可能出现的五种经济领域的任务。本书提出的问题和任务至今仍构成对当代经济学家的挑战，很有前瞻性 。

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Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world's poor. But much of their work is based on assumptions that are untested generalizations at best, harmful misperceptions at worst.
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo have pioneered the use of randomized control trials in development economics. Work based on these principles, supervised by the Poverty Action Lab, is being carried out in dozens of countries. Drawing on this and their 15 years of research from Chile to India, Kenya to Indonesia, they have identified wholly new aspects of the behavior of poor people, their needs, and the way that aid or financial investment can affect their lives. Their work defies certain presumptions: that microfinance is a cure-all, that schooling equals learning, that poverty at the level of 99 cents a day is just a more extreme version of the experience any of us have when our income falls uncomfortably low.
This important book illuminates how the poor live, and offers all of us an opportunity to think of a world beyond poverty.
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The study of development in low-income countries is attracting more attention around the world than ever before. Yet until now there has been no comprehensive text that incorporates the huge strides made in the subject over the past decade. Development Economics does precisely that in a clear, rigorous, and elegant fashion.</p>
Debraj Ray, one of the most accomplished theorists in development economics today, presents in this book a synthesis of recent and older literature in the field and raises important questions that will help to set the agenda for future research. He covers such vital subjects as theories of economic growth, economic inequality, poverty and undernutrition, population growth, trade policy, and the markets for land, labor, and credit. A common point of view underlies the treatment of these subjects: that much of the development process can be understood by studying factors that impede the efficient and equitable functioning of markets. Diverse topics such as the new growth theory, moral hazard in land contracts, information-based theories of credit markets, and the macroeconomic implications of economic inequality come under this common methodological umbrella.</p>
The book takes the position that there is no single cause for economic progress, but that a combination of factors--among them the improvement of physical and human capital, the reduction of inequality, and institutions that enable the background flow of information essential to market performance--consistently favor development. Ray supports his arguments throughout with examples from around the world. The book assumes a knowledge of only introductory economics and explains sophisticated concepts in simple, direct language, keeping the use of mathematics to a minimum.</p>
Development Economics will be the definitive textbook in this subject for years to come. It will prove useful to researchers by showing intriguing connections among a wide variety of subjects that are rarely discussed together in the same book. And it will be an important resource for policy-makers, who increasingly find themselves dealing with complex issues of growth, inequality, poverty, and social welfare.</p>

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Surveying three centuries of economic history, a Harvard professor argues for a leaner global system that puts national democracies front and center. From the mercantile monopolies of seventeenth-century empires to the modern-day authority of the WTO, IMF, and World Bank, the nations of the world have struggled to effectively harness globalization's promise. The economic narratives that underpinned these eras—the gold standard, the Bretton Woods regime, the "Washington Consensus"—brought great success and great failure. In this eloquent challenge to the reigning wisdom on globalization, Dani Rodrik offers a new narrative, one that embraces an ineluctable tension: we cannot simultaneously pursue democracy, national self-determination, and economic globalization. When the social arrangements of democracies inevitably clash with the international demands of globalization, national priorities should take precedence. Combining history with insight, humor with good-natured critique, Rodrik's case for a customizable globalization supported by a light frame of international rules shows the way to a balanced prosperity as we confront today's global challenges in trade, finance, and labor markets.

《解读中国经济》是在首版《中国经济专题》的基础上修订而成的，新版结合最新的国际经济形势与中国经济新变化全面更新了相关数据和分析内容，并新增一篇关于“全球失衡、储备货币与全球治理”的附录。书中总结了中国与其他国家、地区经济发展和改革活动的经验，提出了一个经济发展和转型的一般理论，并以此理论分析中国在改革和发展过程中取得的各项成就，面临的主要经济、社会问题，探讨其原因和解决问题的办法。《解读中国经济》的最大特色就是用通俗的语言和生动的实例，系统地回顾了中国经济的发展历程与改革经验，深入浅出地讲解了中国经济发展的热点问题，重点阐述了自生能力理论和比较优势战略。
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《发展经济学》力求立足于发展中国家实际，在系统综合有关经济发展理论的基础上，试图向广大读者提供一个比较简明且相对完整的框架，说明发展中国家经济发展原理与政策，同时也为制定中国经济发展政策提供一种理论工具。全书共设有四篇，下分十五章，涉及发展的主要问题和重要方面。第一篇包括发展的基本概念与一般原理，第二篇从制度因素、市场与政府作用讨论如何影响发展的行为方式．第三篇论述各种影响发展的国内和国际要素条件，第四篇关注产业变动、农业农村发展、人口流动和区域等结构转换和发展问题。

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中国经济在20多年的改革中取得的高速增长是人类历史上的一个奇迹。国内外的许多研究预测21世纪中国将再度成为世界上最大的经济强国。本书以诱发性制度变迁理论为框架来分析中国的发展战略、经济体制、经济改革和经济发展的关系。美国著名经济学家认为，本书对渐进式改革如何在中国进行的描述令人信服。
本书初版于1994年，之后短短几年里，作者目睹中国经济改革与发展的又一系列重要进展，参与中国经济学界的争论，对书中的一些理论和政策问题作了更深入的阐述，从而使本书的理论更臻完善和具有针对性。

《中国经济专题》总结了中国和其他国家、地区经济发展和改革成功与失败的经验，提出了一个经济发展和转型的一般理论，并以此理论分析了中国在改革和发展过程中所取得的成就，面临的主要经济、社会问题，探讨了其原因和解决问题的办法。
“中国经济专题”是林毅夫教授在北大面向本科生开设的一门课程。课程开设于1998年，到《中国经济专题》成书时正好十年，累计听课人数已上万，课程以其前沿理论与本土化关注的完美结合深受广大学生的好评，并在刚刚过去的2007年当之无愧地被评选为北京大学精品课程。《中国经济专题》虽名为专题，实为对中国过去、现在和未来经济发展机遇与挑战的一个系统阐述和解析。
《中国经济专题》是林老师在北京大学教学生活的一个小结，就像他在前言中所说的：“盼望此书的出版能和已上过这门课的同学们重温当时上课的情景，也盼望能通过这《中国经济专题》和未能上这门课的同学们进行思想的交流”。虽然事务繁忙，林老师却从不吝惜自己和学生在一起的时间。同一研究中心的姚洋教授说过：“林老师特别喜欢讲课，他可以连续讲4个小时，不停顿的，如果不是学生饿了的话，他可以从下午一直讲到晚上。”林老师言传身教的不仅仅是他的学识，还有他的理想。他希望学生有高远的抱负，有胸怀天下的志向。他说在与学生的交流中，可以看到国家民族复兴的希望，所以他在书中有这样的感叹：“得天下英才而教之，其乐陶陶！”