Im going to talk today about something that has unconsciously and indirectly led to a tyranny of experts. Lets call it the technocratic approach to Economic Development. Its the idea that poverty is really just a set of technical robs, so that, for example problems, so that, for example, for malaria theres a variety of Technical Solutions. One of them involves spraying a chemical on the walls of peoples houses, on the inside walls of peoples houses to kill mosquitoes that carry malaria. Thats a technical solution. Another technical solution might be to convert land to higher valueses like from food crops that have low value to Forestry Products that have high value. Now let me tell you why this might, this purely technical approach to development which seems so appealing, so straightforward, so countercontroversial might, in fact, be not quite that easy. So heres the story. And this is not a happy story. This is not like do not think this is the runup to a punch to a joke. Ill try to w