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THE ILLUSION OF SCARCITY

What if the problem isn’t that Nigeria has no money; but that we have misunderstood what money is?

For decades, Nigerians have heard the same explanation for poverty, failing infrastructure, unemployment, inflation, and declining living standards: “There is no money.”

The Illusion of Scarcity challenges that assumption.

Faruq Adeyemi presents a radical re-examination of money, national wealth, inflation, and the economic forces shaping Nigeria and Africa. At the heart of the book is a simple but powerful distinction: money is not wealth. Money is a claim on real value.

Drawing on Nigeria’s economic experience and examples from countries such as China, Vietnam, Ethiopia, South Korea, and others, the book argues that sustainable prosperity comes from creating, protecting, and recirculating real economic value; not simply printing money, borrowing, attracting foreign currency, or managing scarcity.

The book introduces a Value-First Economics framework built around three fundamental pillars of national wealth:

  • Natural Resources: transforming land, minerals, energy, agriculture, and other resources into productive economic output.

  • Knowledge & Technology: using education, innovation, science, technology, and skills to multiply productivity.

  • Labor: empowering people to become productive engines of value creation.

Adeyemi examines how these pillars can be connected to create stronger industries, more productive communities, greater domestic output, and sustainable prosperity.

The book also explores the relationship between money creation, circulation, and inflation. Rather than treating money supply as the only explanation for rising prices, it examines value leakage, low productivity, import dependence, capital flight, corruption, and weak domestic recirculation as critical parts of the problem.

But The Illusion of Scarcity is not merely a diagnosis. It proposes a path forward: linking monetary expansion to measurable value creation, directing credit toward productive sectors, reducing economic leakages, strengthening domestic production, reforming institutions, and measuring national success through real economic outcomes.

The central question is no longer simply:

“Where is the money?”

It is:

“Why are we not systematically creating, protecting, and recirculating value?”

For policymakers, economists, entrepreneurs, students, citizens, and anyone concerned about Africa’s economic future, this book offers a provocative invitation to rethink the foundations of prosperity.

Stop managing scarcity. Start engineering abundance.

Prosperity is not a mirage. It is a choice.

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Isbn 13:9798171090166
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