ABSTRACT
The economist Professor Adolph Lowe, has been insisting for many years that economics can no longer rely on the assumptions which enabled classical economists to treat their field as if it shared the relevant features of the fields of the natural sciences.1 Neither political neutrality nor the constancy of human economic motivation can be assumed. Economists must accept an instrumental rather than a pre dictive role. Their main task is to help in choosing paths to politically desirable states. In doing so they must take account of political constraints and human motivations as culture-related variables.
