ABSTRACT To facilitate an organized withdrawal from its African territories in the 1960s, the UK authorities undertook studies of the economic potential of each. What has been little studied is the nature and impacts of these exercises on subsequent policy. This paper looks at two such studies that examined ways existing ‘common markets’ in East and Central Africa could be retained after independence, and further developed. The institutions and structures governing the territories differed, one a common market and the other a fuller federation, as did the bodies conducting the analysis, one an official commission requiring public recommendations, and the other an advisory group to a senior government minister. The paper offers insights as to the way economists viewed common markets at the time, how they sought to quantify their economic benefits, and the ways in which these benefits were distributed across member states. It also considers the types of economic policy recommendations that were made and the reaction of the British authorities and the colonial politicians to them.

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共同市场与“不列颠非洲”的非殖民化：经济学家和经济学家的作用

摘要为了促进1960年代有组织地撤离非洲领土，英国当局对两国的经济潜力进行了研究。很少研究的是这些演习对后续政策的性质和影响。本文着眼于两项研究，研究了独立后保留并进一步发展东非和中非现有“共同市场”的方式。管理领土的机构和结构各不相同，一个是共同市场，另一个是更完整的联邦，进行分析的机构也是如此，一个是需要公开建议的官方委员会，另一个是高级政府部长的咨询小组。本文提供了关于经济学家当时如何看待共同市场，他们如何寻求量化其经济利益的见解，以及这些好处在各成员国之间的分配方式。它还考虑了提出的经济政策建议的类型以及英国当局和殖民地政客对此的反应。