METHODOLOGY, ID OGY AND THE ECONOMICS OF POLICY: WHY RESOURCE ECONOMISTS DISAGREE
探讨资源经济学家之间持续分歧的深层原因，认为分歧不仅源于优先事项和策略差异，更源于根本对立的方法论和知识观，并指出这种分歧具有积极价值。
It is evident that there is persistent disagreement among competent and articulate resource economists, disagreement not only about the appropriate analytical and prescriptive response to particular constellations of policy issues but also about the uses and limitations of economics as a thought system in the policy arena.' This must be disquieting and disappointing to many among us who would regard the emergence of an integrated and cohesive (as opposed to diverse and fractious) resource economics as evidence of its maturation. It is my purpose here to argue that the disagreements among us go deeper than mere disputes about priorities and tactics for doing resource economics, where all participants share a common vision of what resource economics is and should be. Rather, these disagreements extend beyond alternative conceptions of resource economics to fundamentally opposing methodologies, i.e., conceptions of knowledge and how to get it. While the proximate foci of disagreement will shift over time, there is literally no good reason to expect an ultimate resolution of intradisciplinary conflict and convergence of viewpoints. Finally, I argue that persistent disagreement is not only a fact of life, it has its virtues!