Those floppy disks and their downloadable successors made it easy, perhaps too easy, for economists to test their pet theories of growth across a broad canvas of countries and decades.

那些软盘及其可下载的后续版本，让经济学够轻松——或许过于轻松——在跨越多国和数十年的广阔背景下， 检关于经济增长的独特理论。

1956. In A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth, U.S. economist Robert Solow applies the idea of diminishing marginal returns to the growth prospects of countries.

1956年。在美国经济学罗伯特·索洛的《经济增长理论的贡献》一文中，将边际收益递减的概念应用于国的增长前景。