Making World Development Work: Scientific Alternatives to Neoclassical Economic TheoryGrégoire Leclerc, Charles A. S. Hall UNM Press, 2007 - 645 oldal Making World Development Work is about economic development and its relation to population, environment and resource issues in less affluent countries. The essays presented here criticize the way most large development projects are designed and conducted and are written by professionals from a broad range of disciplines involved in current development research. Making World Development Work explains why overly simplistic economic models of development have led to many failures and unnecessary environmental destruction. The editors contend the preferred method of development is through a systematiic process that integrates the natural sciences with economics and one that is based on scientific method instead of ideology. Leclerc and Hall review the logical and methodological basis of neoclassical economics and its application to development. They provide a series of historical perspectives, including less developed countries that have improved successfully and others that have not been as successful. They complete the demonstration with a portfolio of current development research innovations in the social and economic sciences as well as in the natural sciences, including a new logical basis for economics called biophysical economics. Making World Development Work offers new ways to consider development including the limitations of cheap energy, environmental degradation, and human population growth as the fundamental issues for any economic model that can have any hope of working in the future. |
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THE RELATION BETWEEN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND LANDUSE CHANGE | 13 |
A BRIEF HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Models and Foreign Aid | 39 |
THE NEED TO REINTEGRATE THE NATURAL SCIENCES WITH ECONOMICS | 75 |
THE MYTH OF EFFICIENCY THROUGH MARKET ECONOMICS | 90 |
HOW TO CONSTRUCT A BIOPHYSICAL ECONOMIC MODEL FOR A COUNTRY OR REGION | 104 |
THE Myth of DevelOPMENT Examples from the Republic of Niger | 142 |
ASSESSING THE POSSIBILITY OF SUSTAINAble DevelopmENT IN COSTA RICA | 150 |
PUTTING Development in PERSPECTIVE Colonial and Neocolonial Dynamics in the Philippines | 160 |
CHOOSING SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES EMPIRICALLY Susan Allan and Dean Holland | 363 |
PART FIVE | 377 |
ASSESSING AND HIGHLIGHTING FOREST CHANGE IN THE TROPICS | 394 |
REDUCING PESTICIDE RUNOFF TO THE CARIBBEAN SEA A Formidable Regional Challenge | 402 |
NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS AND FISHERIES Gary Sharp and Charles A S Hall | 423 |
SHRIMP CULTURE IN LATIN AMERICA An Economic Experiment out of Control and | 442 |
Doing Better Economics | 455 |
RURAL ACCESSIBILITY DECISION MAKING Issues of Integration Scale and Sustainability | 474 |
IS THE ARGENTINE NATIONAL ECONOMY BEING DESTROYED BY | 178 |
TESTING BOSERUP An Analysis of the Relation between Human Population Growth | 192 |
TRAdeoffs between INCOME AND EROSION IN A SMALL WATERSHED GIS and Economic | 209 |
SIMULATION MODELING FOR CHARACTERIZING STRATEGIC STREAMWATER AVAILABILITY | 216 |
THE APPLICATION OF LAND USEANALYSIS TOOLS ACROSS DIFFERENT SCALES | 233 |
DERIVING LANDQUALITY INDICATORS FROM THE LANDSCAPE UNITS USED IN SOILS SURVEYS | 251 |
MODELING LANDUSE DYNAMICS WITH GEOGRAPHICAL DATA The Case of Intervened | 263 |
SCALE ISSUES IN DEVELOPING A DEFORESTATION BASELINE FOR THE REGION OF | 280 |
A PRELIMINARY SIMULATION OF THE POTENTIAL FOR SUSTAINABILITY IN ERITREA | 303 |
PART FOUR | 313 |
FARMERS DECISION MAKING ON LAND USE The Importance of Soil Conditions in | 344 |
AGENtbased Systems AND POLICY ANALYSIS Perspectives and Challenges | 487 |
MAKING TROPICAL AGRICULTURE MORE SUSTAINABLE BY USING BIOECONOMIC MODELS | 515 |
USING INPUTOUTPUT ANALYSIS TO ANALYZE THE ECONOMY OF THE GRANDE DE SAN Ramón | 528 |
PART SEVEN | 541 |
Watershed ScaleS AND LEVELS Experiences with Projects in Central America | 563 |
IMPROVING POVERTYREDUCTION POLICIES | 594 |
POSTSCRIPT The Elephants in the Living Room Charles A S Hall and Grégoire Leclerc | 616 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 623 |
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