著名经济学家茅于轼和亚洲开发银行北京代表处首席经济学家汤敏最近讲到了他们的试验田。茅老与汤敏在市场上开辟经济学试验田,最早始于1993年,他们在山西临县设立“互助基金会”。茅于轼说,1993年,他与夫人赵女士在资助山西临县希望工程的时候发现,当地农民在上学、治病、发展生产方面面临相当大的资金缺口,农民生活相当困难。在茅老看来,中国最大问题是农民问题,农民致富最缺乏的资源是钱。茅老决定在山西省临县湍水头镇水龙头村向农民提供小额资金贷款,这个想法与他的朋友、亚洲开发银行首席经济学家汤敏不谋而合。 Well-known economist Mao Yushi and chief economist Tang Min of the Asian Development Bank Beijing Representative Office recently spoke about their experimental fields. Mao Lao and Tang Min opened the economic experimental field in the market, which started as early as 1993 and set up a “mutual fund” in Linxian County, Shanxi Province. Mao Yushi said that when he and his wife, Ms. Zhao, funded the Hope Project in Linxian, Shanxi in 1993, Mao Yushi said that local farmers are facing considerable funding shortfalls in going to school, treating diseases and developing production. The peasants’ lives are rather difficult. In Mao’s opinion, the biggest problem in China is the peasant problem. The most scarce resources for peasants to get rich are money. Mao decided to provide small-sum loans to farmers in the tap village of Turpan Shuitou Town, Linxian County, Shanxi Province, in line with his friend, Tom Min, chief economist of the Asian Development Bank.