HUMANOMICS Humanomics Volume 12 Number 3 1996 Contents Editorial Understanding the Concept of Development bby Ted Trainer ‘Democratic Development versus Economic Progress by Sheldon Wein ‘Westernizing the Third World by Ozay Mehmet Grassroots Approach to Sustainable Development ‘by Muhammad Syukeri Salleh and Masudul Alam Choudbury‘The Centre of Humanomics. ‘The Centre of Humanomicsisa formally established intel- lectual association of university professors from around the world at the University College of Cape Breton, Sydney, Nova Scotia. It is devoted to the ethico-economic study of major socio-economic issues in world perspective. The main objective of the Centre is to disseminate scholarly views and writings of social thinkers and personalities on ethico-economie issues for the awareness, education and interest of informed readership. The programmes of the Centre of Humanomics are: editorship of the international academic journal Humanomics; publication of occasional refereed monographs on ethico-economic issues, organisa- tion of occasional learned seminars and conferences in the area of ethico-economics, socio-scientilic epistemology and globally interactive systems. Forall of this the Centre seeks active participation in ethico-economic research and delib- erations {rom the world intellectual community. Humanomics is catalogued in the Journal of Economic Literature and is entered in the CD-ROM of JEL. Copyright © 1996 Barmarick Publications, Enholmes Hall, Patrington, Hull, East Yorkshire, England, HU120PR. Telephone 01964 630033 Printed by Staples Printers Limited, Neptune Close, Medway City Estate, Rochester, Kent, ME2 4LT England.‘Volume 12 Number 3 1996 1 EDITORIAL While carrying on the scientific research program of ethico- economics as entrenched in the Principle of Ethical Endogeneity, the concept of human development must be redefined. The Principle of Ethical Endogeneity means the systemic way of viewing human, ecological and scientific relations and o scientifically (ic. analytically) explain these relationships in the framework of a continuously circular causation and continuity model of unified reality. The economy then is not seen to be a domain of human action independent of the total social order. Likewise, there is nothing sacrosanct in science that can allow it to exist in the ivory tower of unquestioned isolation from moral and ethical questions and methodology. This concept of inherent interrelationships between ethics, morality and both the methodology and the application of science in the social context, is termed by us as the socio-scientific order. The Principle of Ethical Endogeneity, one of whose precepts is universal complementarity caused by the inherently interactive world view that the paradigm of ethico-economic serves, presents a pervasively relational view of ecology, development and the underlying parameters of the socio-scientific order. The study of ethico-economics in the light of these perspectives of issues like development, civilization and instivutions, leads us to question old epistemological premisses and devise new ones on ethical and moral high grounds. Yet the endeavour here is of an analytical nature, and polemics of ethical supremacy are to be avoided. The new epistemological quest give us that possibility to derive knowledge roots. Our search in ethico-economics is not for local issues and ethical or moral relativism. These do not form universally relational world views. On the contrary, they are often foundto lead to conflicts on the basis of individbalistic values. Universal ethics and morality are common to all humanity. In ethico-economics we find and search for their discovery on the promise of integrating the groundwork of socio-scientific actions through pervasive interactions. The world view of ethico-economics in this sense is thus a unitary one and is