It has been generations since economists Robert Solow and Moses Abramovitz pointed out that Marshall’s toolkit is a poor aid for understanding modern economic growth. The real sources of growth are not to be found in supplies and demands and the allocation of scarce resources to alternative uses, but in technological and organizational change – about which economists have too little to say.
几代以前，经济学家Robert Solow和Moses Abramovitz就指出马歇尔的理论无法帮助人们理解现代经济增长。增长的真正源头不在于供求关系，也不在于将稀缺资源分配给其他用途，而在于技术和机构的改变——而在这方面，经济学家们几乎无话可说。