Jean-Claude Maswana
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Jean-Claude Maswana
@JCMaswana
Professor, Economist 立命館大学経済学研究科教授. Committed to the promotion of love of the Highest Principle, instincts of charity, love of humankind. https://t.co/IdJF9ZhcFu






The African student who memorizes Western economic theory is not receiving a neutral education. They are being taught to see their continent through the eyes of the people who designed its current arrangements. They will learn about comparative advantage, the theory that says each country should specialize in what it produces most efficiently. In practice, for many African countries, this means: keep producing raw materials, because that is your comparative advantage. Do not process them. Do not manufacture. Do not climb the value chain. Export the cocoa bean. Import the chocolate. Export the cotton. Import the shirt. Export the bauxite. Import the aluminum. This is called efficiency. What it is, actually, is a permanent assignment of African economies to the bottom of every value chain, guaranteed by a theory that presents this arrangement as the natural outcome of rational markets rather than as the result of deliberate historical policy, colonial infrastructure investment, and trade rules written by the people at the top. But the student learns the theory before they learn the history. The theory makes the history invisible. That is the function of the curriculum.







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