Conclusion
Looking back at any major economist the leading question is: what did he do that will last? Here, Ian Little's major impact is his argument that prices matter, and that standard economic theory must be adapted to the particular features of developing countries, not abandoned altogether. Today, this is the orthodox view, so that many would not think of it as coming from Little, and a few other writers, such as Scitovsky and Scott. That is what happens with many leading contributions: They are first rejected as false, then dismissed as obvious.