Indeed, he once chided John Kenneth Galbraith for enunciating a long list of prerequisites for foreign aid to be effective. If developing countries could meet these conditions, he wrote, they would be in a position to send foreign aid to the United States!
的确，他曾经抨击加尔布雷斯提出一长串使得外国援助有效的先决条件。赫希曼写道，如果发展中国家能够满足这些条件，它们就可以给美国提供外援了！