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The Activation Trap

  The Activation Trap — New Essay Now Available on OSF, MPRA & SSRN (Free Access) By Temesgen Muleta‑Erena The Oromian Economist | TC Press A new research essay has been added to the republic’s growing body of work: The Activation Trap: A Hybrid Model of Inactive Capital, Symbolic Modernisation, and Low‑Equilibrium Dynamics in Aid‑Dependent South. This paper examines a question that has shaped development debates for decades: Why do some economies accumulate education, infrastructure, and administrative capacity yet remain technologically stagnant? A New Lens: Activation, Not Accumulation The essay argues that underdevelopment is not simply a shortage of resources or skills. Instead, it is a failure of activation — the conversion of potential into capability. Using an evolutionary‑game‑theoretic model, the paper shows how individuals in low‑activation economies face a strategic choice between innovation and conformity . Because institutional incentives overwhelmingly reward c...

History, humanity and civilization

  Orom o, ancient Africa, the Origin of humanity, the pioneers of humankind and Civilization JEL: O5, D2 Temesgen M. Erena (DPhil), Economist The topic is about Oromia’s location in space and allocation in humanity and society. It is concerned with Oromia’s physical position in terms of geography and relational to issues of economic conditions, social justices, cultural values, political history and destiny. Civilisation, Colonisation and Underdevelopment are presented in historical and geo-political perspectives. They capture both the space and time perceptions. They are also representing the economic and social conditions and positions. The portrayal we procure the present of the Oromo nation, the core of the Cush ( Cushite / Kemet)/Ham (Hamite), the children of Noah, in North & East Africa in past age from the phantom of the Solomonic dynasty, the history thought in Abyssinian high schools, their text books and elsewhere in the invaders’ literature, abusive literary an...