Economics Imperialism and Freakonomics in Philippine Social Development

Reference to InterAksyon's report 
"Weak institutions, elite control preventing Philippine takeoff - experts"

James Robinson, co-author with Daron Acemoglu of the book Why Nations Fail, has been invited to a forum in the Philippines attended by the country's leading economists on a topic which, I strongly believe, Filipino researchers and academics can better address adequately and convincingly.

Why the Philippine economy has not taken off 26 years after the fall of Marcos dictatorship and crony capitalism???

I argue that, "in UP Diliman organizational terms", it's because for so long our national development strategies and social goals have been greatly shaped, defined, and influenced by the dominance of the UP School of Economics (and partly by the College of Law?). 

I dream of another Philippine development vision with the synergy of the wisdom, tacit knowledge, and expertise coming from the UP Colleges of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Science, Engineering, Business Administration, Social Work and Community Development, Education, Fine Arts, Tourism, Asian Center, Small Scale Industries, Urban and Regional Planning, Technology Management, Labor and Industrial Relations, Human Kinetics, Home Economics, Mass Communication, Arts and Letters, Music, Statistics, Library and Information Science, Architecture, Public Administration and Governance, as well as the IRRI (International Rice Research Institute) and other colleges in UPLB!

But, of course, this is not a support to any notions of UP elitism! It's simply an analogy of my general critique of freakonomics (i.e., the economic theory of everything) as well as of the economics imperialism and legal imperialism over our social goals and national life.