英文convergence。未必翻譯成收斂,也有可能是趨同。
在維基中這么定義經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)的convergence:
The idea of convergence in economics (also sometimes known as the catch-up effect) is the hypothesis that poorer economies' per capita incomes will tend to grow at faster rates than richer economies. As a result, all economies should eventually converge in terms of per capita income.
而在新帕爾格雷夫經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)大辭典中,關(guān)于趨同性假說詞條是這么說的:
這是一種學(xué)說,認(rèn)為要么蘇聯(lián)和“類似的國家”在社會(huì)和經(jīng)濟(jì)上正在或即將變成相似于美國和其他發(fā)達(dá)資本主義國家;要么后者向前者轉(zhuǎn)變——于是,不論哪一種情況,政治差別以及由此而來的對外政策緊張局勢,最終也將消失。