Interest in prices and in income distribution survived into the neo-classical era, but labour ceased to be unlimited in supply, and the formal model of economic analysis was no longer expected to explain the expansion of the system through time. These changes of assumption and of interest served well enough in the European parts of the world, where labour was indeed limited in supply, and where for the next half century it looked as if economic expansion could indeed be assumed to be automatic. On the other hand over the greater part of Asia labour is unlimited in supply, and economic expansion certainly cannot be taken for granted. Asia’s problems, however, attracted very few economists during the neo-classical era (even the Asian economists themselves absorbed the assumptions and preoccupations of European economics) and hardly any progress has been made for nearly a century with the kind of economics which would throw light upon the problems. of countries with surplus populations.

对价格和收入分配的兴趣复苏于新古典时代，但是劳动力不再是无限供给的，并且经济分析模型不再被指望从时间维度去解释对这一系统的阐述。假设和兴趣的变化足以为欧洲服务，这里的劳动力确实受到了限制，并且到了下半世纪经济扩张假设为必然的。另一方便，比亚洲更大一片区域的劳动力的供给仍是无限的，经济也理所应当地不会扩张。亚洲的问题在新古典时代几乎没有吸引到经济学家（就连亚洲的经济学家都被欧洲经济的假设和看法所吸引），并且这种经济将近一个世纪在阐明人口增加的国家问题上没有任何进展。