可以作为有关经济增长的辅助资料看，我个人觉得第三部分写的特别好，可以重点看。
我这个DJVU格式的，很清晰。仔细搜索了一下，论坛原来有PDF版的下载，似乎不全（我本人并没有下载，所以不确定），请自行选择下载，其下载链接如下：
http://www.pinggu.org/bbs/b48i86037.html


下面是书的简介
The Elusive Quest for Growth
Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics
William R. Easterly

August 2002 6 x 9, 356 pp., 4 illus.  $26.95/£16.95 (PAPER)
ISBN-10: 0-262-55042-3  ISBN-13: 978-0-262-55042-0

Since the end of World War II, economists have tried to figure out how poor countries in the tropics could attain standards of living approaching those of countries in Europe and North America. Attempted remedies have included providing foreign aid, investing in machines, fostering education, controlling population growth, and making aid loans as well as forgiving those loans on condition of reforms. None of these solutions has delivered as promised. The problem is not the failure of economics, William Easterly argues, but the failure to apply economic principles to practical policy work.

In this book Easterly shows how these solutions all violate the basic principle of economics, that people—private individuals and businesses, government officials, even aid donors—respond to incentives. Easterly first discusses the importance of growth. He then analyzes the development solutions that have failed. Finally, he suggests alternative approaches to the problem. Written in an accessible, at times irreverent, style, Easterly's book combines modern growth theory with anecdotes from his fieldwork for the World Bank.

About the Author

William Easterly is the author of The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (MIT Press, 2001) and The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. He is Professor of Economics at New York University (Joint with Africa House), Codirector of NYU's Development Research Institute, visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Nonresident Fellow of the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC.


Table of ContentsWhy Growth Matters
To Help the Poor
Panaceas That Failed
Aid for Investment
Solow's Surprise: Investment Is Not the Key to Growth
Educated for What?
Cash for Condoms?
The Loans That Were, the Growth That Wasn't
Forgive Us Our Debts
People Respond to Incentives
Tales of Increasing Returns: Leaks, Matches, and Traps
Creative Destruction: The Power of Technology
Under an Evil Star
Governments Can Kill Growth
Corruption and Growth;
Polarized Peoples
Conclusion: The View from Lahore