ABSTRACT
S. Charusheela is Professor at the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences (IAS), University of Washington, Bothell. Prior to joining IAS in 2011, she held positions at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2007–2010), University of Hawaii at Manoa (1999–2007), and Franklin & Marshall College (1995–1998). Awareness of the ways in which modernism and modernist assumptions have really shaped the field of development economics. Economics is not the only field that has disputes, but if people take sociology, people actually have content for the dispute. It's a disservice to the coming generations if people present economics the way it was often presented to the author in his/her early days, as a field where everybody knows what the questions and approaches are. Where people are interdisciplinary and breaking down divisions, there's normally lots of anxieties and ambivalences about how far people go.
