The application of development economics: general principles and context specificity
从方法论层面探讨发展经济学的应用，针对现代主义和后现代主义发展政策的不足，提出基于批判实在论的替代方法，并以苏格兰为例说明一般原则如何结合情境特殊性。
The purpose of this paper is to consider the application of development economics at the methodological level. In particular, given the shortcomings of both the modernist and postmodernist approaches to development policy, we consider an alternative approach, drawing on critical realism, which combines the benefits of generality with the benefits of attention to specificity of context. The approach is illustrated by showing how principles in development economics addressing issues of globalisation and peripherality can serve to illuminate some of the causal tendencies at work in a developed economy such as Scotland.