This discourse, in turn, supports economic-reductionist arguments that genetic information should be patentable and that market-based management of biotechnology will benefit everyone.
Through their overly reductionist perspective, conventional economic evaluations of LHW programmes are ill-equipped to deal with institutional changes [ 11], such as changes in local governance or differences in social values, which are especially important at the community-level.
The problem with the economic argument is that it is overly reductionist.
The problems of course, occur when it is not so clear: Macro-economic models are largely reductionist although the economy is clearly a complex system.
Currently, this reductionist perspective follows the World Bank's "economics first" strategy, which views water as a commodity for economic development and fails to recognize the Ganges Basin ecological systems and community historical rights.
Working scientists need an understanding of their own practice that avoids the naïve myth that science can become objective by avoiding social influences as well as the reductionist view that its content is determined simply by economic interests.
The decision makers of such expensive, out-of-focus and fuzzy undertakings seldom consider the life-threatening consequences of wrong and reductionist approaches to drug development for patients and the tremendous economic burden to the society.
Computational analysis shows that under the reductionist conditions, the inverted pendular motion is indeed the most economic way of walking at low speeds [ 12].
As mentioned in the introduction, initial econometric findings on the resource curse are reductionist in their scope (countries vs. affected communities) and in their perspective (economic and political factors vs. social outcomes).
Fukuyama rejects reductionist attempts to explain political and social institutions as mere epiphenomena of underlying economic or technological structures.
Traditionally, physicists have been reductionists.
