l work of development, which is improvement in incomes, health, education and the like, and not as an independent objective of development strategy. (Amartya Sen is an important exception to this generalization.) The democracy promotion agencies, for their part, spend relatively little time worrying about econ

on engineering, technology and economics, I am philosophically a strongly committed cornucopian. I personally agree with the binary economists and Amartya Sen that there are more than enough commodities in the world for everybody; just that most people do not have the money to buy them. From the point of