LincolnFung 发表于 2009-8-24 20:14 
Presumably, Sen is an Indian. If so, it indicates that there is a fairly long distance between economics and real practices of economic development.
While India has achieved very good economic growth and development in general, it has been occurring so long after Sen's so valuable work in economics and the distance between India and the industrialised world is still so large.
Is that because of the lack of economic guidance from economics? Or is that due to the inability of policy makers in so many developing countries? Or is that because of the inability of economists to persuade policy makers? Or is that a case that the reality is not as simple as economics puts it to be? There are so many competing economics. Which economics is the right one for which? Or how different economics should be combined to serve economic development?
Economists have a huge task before them.
很多社会问题不是经济学能解决的,更不是经济学家能解决的