Denis Goulet in Crossing the Mainstream, ed. Amitava K. Dutt and Kenneth P. Jameson (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001), 29-51.

Development engages economic, political, social, cultural, environmental, and ethical issues. Because it simultaneously creates and destroys values, it is seen by some as a good thing, by others as a destructive historical force. This ambiguity affects how economists study it. Emerging paradigms of development which reject maximum economic growth in favor of compre-hensive human development as the goal call for a new way of doing economics. This leads economists to put values back into all dimensions of economics - theories, methodology, analysis, and prescription.

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