该书的结束语蕴含着这种论点,“发展经济学的消亡可能有助于经济学和发展中国家经济的兴旺发达”。言下之意是,发展经济学在理论上是错误的,在实践上也是有害的;它已导致各国采取那种制定详尽计划和政府实行各种不同形式干预的政策,采取这种政策的国家的经济成就比起那些采取新古典主义政策(即信赖价格体系和开放贸易制度)的国家要差一些。现在,这种论点已为人们所熟知了。尽管伊恩·利特尔对这种论点的阐述更有深度,但迪帕克·拉尔的这种通俗化描述似乎使他成为这种观点的第一线辩护者。 The concluding remarks of the book contain the argument that “the demise of development economics may contribute to the economic prosperity of developing countries and economics.” The implication is that development economics is theoretically wrong and detrimental in practice; it has led countries to adopt a policy of elaborating plans and implementing various forms of government intervention by countries that have adopted such policies Less than those countries that adopted neoclassical policies (that is, they trusted the price system and the open trade system). Now, this argument is well known. Although Ian Little was more depth in elaborating this argument, this popular depiction by Depak Lall seems to make him the forerunner of this view.