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文件名称:Changing places, engaging
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places engaging
Despite their best efforts, researchers and
policy-makers always have a limited
understanding of the world as it was, is and will
be. A common response to such uncertain
complexity is to target concerns, to simplify
them and to disconnect them from the wider
systems in which they are located. Great science
in the twentieth century made progress in
quantum physics, electronics and biotechnology
precisely because of such
simplifying, or reductionist, approaches (see
Kaku, 1998). The same century saw the great,
sweeping syntheses of Adam Smith and Karl
Marx decomposed into the more fragmented
and forensic concerns of modern economics,
sociology and political science. Equally, the
major, radical social and economic reforms of
the post-war welfare state also made impacts
only because emphasis was put on the rapid
formation and implementation of sectoral
programmes for health, housing, education and
so on. Urgent needs could not wait for a
protracted, intellectual, empirical analysis of
mutual synergies, spillovers and connections.