The paper argues that the sustainable development of Chinese agriculture is constrained by the continuing adverse effects of the policy of industrialisation. This has resulted principally in an excessive loss of capital from the agricultural to the industrial sector, a loss of strategic natural...

This paper addresses objectivity in economics. It criticizes a closed science, "view from nowhere" conception of economics and defends an open science, "view from somewhere" conception of objective science. It ascribes the first conception to mainstream economics, associates it with its...