我想在开始写这篇书评之时,不落陈套地先感谢米德教授写了这本书。无论经济增长论被认为如何抽象,它是一个包括许多部分的非常复杂的论题;要想在一篇文章的篇幅内弄清楚全部论题的许多方面,这是不可能的。所以在人们研究了期刊上目前范围极其广泛的文献之后,会感到各种研究方法的相互关系有很多不明确之处。究竟两种显然不同的学说实际上是否矛盾,或者是否可以和睦相处,宛如同一本杰作的各章那样,很难看得出来。米德教授这本著作的很大优点在于他大加发挥,使他能够比在一篇论文中写得更正确地向我们表明他的立场,或 At the beginning of writing this book review, I would like to thank Professor Meade for writing this book. Whatever the abstraction of economic growth theory is considered to be, it is a very complex topic that includes many parts; it is impossible to find out many aspects of the whole thesis within an article’s length. Therefore, after people have studied the current wide range of articles in journals, they feel that there are many ambiguities in the interrelationship between various research methods. Whether two apparently different doctrines in fact contradict each other or whether they can live in harmony is as hard to see as the chapters of the same masterpiece. The great advantage of Professor Meade in this book is that he has played a greater role in enabling him to state his position more correctly than he wrote in a paper or