Phillips had been trained in New Zealand and Australia as an electrical engineer, had spent time in Asia before the war, spoke fluent Cantonese, and only embarked on a career in economics after his discharge from the RAF when the war ended. Output growth Enough of these biographical curiosities.
Just as Dr. Williams‟ doctoral thesis “Economic Aspects of Emancipation and Slavery in the British West Indies” challenged the prevailing orthodoxy that the causes of the abolition of slavery were not that the British had become morally offended at this sinful trade in human bodies, but was due to the fact that slavery was no longer profitable to British Capitalism, so too must post-colonial Caribbean nations challenge the prevailing defeatist attitude that they cannot escape the forces bedeviling their economies and societies and which threaten to permanently erase their uniquely crafted Caribbean identity.