Colin Kirkpatrick and Norman Lee, eds., Sustainable Development in a Developing World: Integrating Socio-economic Appraisal and Environmental Assessment, Edward Elgar, 1997, ISBN 1-85898-581-1

摘要

Many physical and social scientists lament the dominance of economics in development decision-making. According to Charles Hall, 'to many physical scientists it is absolutely remarkable, even frightening, that economics can be taught and practised without reference to the physical facts of production'. And Robert Chambers criticizes economists for neglecting social reality, particularly in the developing world—'it is not the local, complex, diverse, dynamic and unpredictable reality of those who are poor, weak and peripheral that counts, but the flat shadows of that reality that they economists ... fashion for themselves'.