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Hopkins, MA, papers "Meeting Needs of Nations and Demands for Development" and "Pan-African Perspectives on All-African Advancement".

Haverford College BA, Economics, senior thesis "The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Growth in SADC Countries". Yes, "Development DID work! -Naomi Klein, Disaster Capitalism" "restoring sympathy to economics, darwinist/platonic pseudo-sci racism rebutted, hierarchicalism, empiricist reductionism, stratified states -David Levy and Sandra Peart, Vanity of the Philosopher (historical arguments accessible to laymen and all difficult math confined to last chapter for experts)"

Advocating for DC Trash to Treasure

Follows Adam Smith, speaking to the problem of the "philosopher", which is hierarchicalism as hired-archicalism, an expert class sold out as Plato the Philosopher, like Plato then, becoming dictator-kings of an mighty rightsized utopia, a whitewashed sepulchre filled with bones of "street porters" who bore honestly the burdens of real people, those porters and people then killed by corrupt and violent artifice of the hierarchicalists, the foxes guarding the hencoop by killing community organizers. Note that hired-archicalism slanders its victims with sophistry of totalisms and essentialisms, all the while ignoring the historical context of land-stealing by Cromwell and onward, which silently, invisibly, predicates vain philosophy of land redistribution back to totally and essentially land-unworthy in a later historical context devoid of meaning, or "vain", due to false philosophy. Racist totalism and essentialism as slanders conjure the displacement of historical context, which consisted of land-stealing from those who were not before that theft by Cromwell et al any racially essentially/totally lazy or drunken strangers to land use, before theft of land established vain sold out plato as historian with luxurious chair of philosophy, highbrow hired-archicalist colonialists replacing "street porters", vox deus ex machina populi. Only a "vain philosopher" could so lack any capacity of self-reflection and Socratic self-questioning that he could ignore the historical context of land-stealing by Cromwell et al, and paper over that predicate with racist essentialism/totalism about lazy drunken irish just about to dabble in farming but sure to fail immediately due to innate racial intrinsics, totally and essentially as irish doing as they are.

"The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many occasions so much the cause, as the effect of the division of labour. The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature as from habit, custom, and education. When they came into the world, and for the first six or eight years of their existence, they were, perhaps, very much alike, and neither their parents nor playfellows could perceive any remarkable difference. About that age, or soon after, they come to be employed in very different occupations. The difference of talents comes then to be taken notice of, and widens by degrees, till at last the vanity of the philosopher is willing to acknowledge scarce any resemblance(Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Glasgow edition, p. 28. Cannan edition, here thanks to Levy & Peart)"

Levy and Peart drew attention to the failure of hired-archicalism to boot-strap as scientist, philosopher, historian, hence as public chooser, naming one of their books Vanity of the Philosopher, using the words of Adam Smith to label the Platonic sellout of craft to buy the world from Mephistopheles at less than the actual price of demonstrating the intellectual rigor to avoid totalist and essentialist race slanders while facing the history of land-stealing in Ireland and kidnapping in Africa. Cornel West wrote a book with bell hooks (Professor Gloria Watkins, Yale, Berea), whose book, Black Looks, Race and Representation, trained me to look deeper into matters of image and representation and to recognize the essentialist and totalist arguments in Carlyle, and his omission of historical context--pretensions to history are often subjected to mutilation by totalism versus personal historical and cultural contextual qualification. Here is John Carlyle as hired-archicalist lawyering for slavery, "Carlyle revived the pro-slavery movement in mid-19th century Britain", W.R. Greg, John Ruskin, Charles Dickens, Galton "eugenicist", variously boot-strapping my brother's keeper as benificent imperialist colonialist pooper scooper. In the following image there, John Ruskin spears a black primitive-exotic-inferior(see bell hooks!) who has stolen the wealth of nations by invoking a book of "The Dismal Science", or economics mixed with religion or philosophy, as if the hired-archicalists own the high ground of science, when as you shall see if you read Levy and Peart, or John Stuart Mill quoted in that essay, hired-archicalists are cheap sophist a priori arguing and empiricist reductionist liars for empire, colonialism, land and resource theft, slavery.



...Ruskin skewering the allegedly primitive-exotic-inferior who is viewed by unself-reflecting hubris as VIOLENT(claws, teeth) one, not Cromwell slaughtering man, woman, child, elderly to steal Irish land, or white euro slave traders kidnapping Africans, but the Irish and black men precisely by their emancipation through "dismal" additions to alleged proven science, being the violent ones, stealing the Wealth of Nations through THEIR intellectual errors! Of course it was really, the murderers, thieves, kidnappers, who lied, too, and were not so smart or thorough intellectually.

"Carlyle's target was not Malthus, but economists such as John Stuart Mill, who argued that it was institutions, not race, that explained why some nations were rich and others poor. Carlyle attacked Mill, not for supporting Malthus's predictions about the dire consequences of population growth, but for supporting the emancipation of slaves. It was this fact—that economics assumed that people were basically all the same, and thus all entitled to liberty—that led Carlyle to label economics the dismal science....Carlyle was not alone in denouncing economics for making its radical claims about the equality of all men. Others who joined him included Charles Dickens and John Ruskin. The connection was so well known throughout the 19th century, that even cartoonists could refer to it, knowing that their audience would get the reference."

"The arabesque of his formal dress looks like a tail. In his left hand, he clutches a bag that says "Wealth of Nations" and LSD— the abbreviation for "pounds, shillings, and pence". The cartoonist is clearly taking Adam Smith's abstract title literally. Beside the sprawled figure is a book, perhaps the very book he was reading as death overtook him. It is entitled "The Dismal Science." Armed only with sharp teeth and claws and such insight as might be found in the "Wealth of Nations" or the "Dismal Science" he died alone, with only these useless abstractions and the now, also useless, money"

Mindful of fractional reserving, Federal Reserve takeover of Ben Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Andrew Jackson's constitutional money press, then abstract central bank money spearing the lone crazed indigenous which might just be all of us! Further, "commercial law, strawman", all-caps life alone?! LSD made a vain philosopher anointed with hubris, but the Russian Joneses were one-upped here.