However, cross-disciplinarity is not easy either. There is the ever-present danger
of the lowest common denominator. Instead of the strengths of each discipline, we may
pick up the weaknesses of each. And, in the end, disciplinary narrowness may simply be
replaced by lack of clarity. Also, such exercises may attract weak analysts who cannot
hack it in their own discipline, in its own terms. We will have to be vigilant on each of
these scores. But if the challenge is posed as addressing concrete issues of development,
this should be attractive to the very best in each discipline.