Why were So Many Social Scientists Wrong about the Green Revolution? Learning from Bangladesh
以孟加拉国为例，分析了社会科学家对绿色革命社会经济后果普遍持负面看法却最终被证明错误的三个原因：依赖村庄研究而非全国调查、忽视新技术局限、以及误导性的农业变迁模型。
Most social scientists once took a negative view of the socio-economic consequences of the Green Revolution. Events have since proved them wrong. Using Bangladesh as an example, we offer three reasons why social scientists were mistaken. One is the focus on village studies at the expense of nationally representative surveys. Another is insufficient appreciation of the technical limits of the new rice technology. The third is a misleading model of agrarian change. The inability of village studies to validate generalisations, the reluctance to abandon the historical model of de-peasantisation, and opposing beliefs about how to evaluate socio-economic consequences created a Rashomon Effect that made the controversy hard to resolve.