Biography
Dr. Woodrow W. Clark II
Dr. Woodrow W. Clark II
Clark Strategic Partners (CSP)
Title: The Myth of Economics: Market Manipulation
Abstract: 
This paper seeks to turn economics into a science. The key problem is that economics has never been a science. And one of the key factors is the meaning and use of the “market”. The paper searches for a scientific discussion and perspective that can capture both what is beneath the surface of economic structures and activities, but also how to best understand the dynamics of economics. Science is both “quantitative” and “qualitative”. Data and statistics both need to defined and explained. Numbers need to have meanings and based on hypothesis, which are explained, measured and then validated through testing and re-testing. 
The discussion starts with a critique of Adam Smith’s neo-classical economic “theory” since it has never been a reality, as to how economics needs to be understood using the market. Central in the paper is that the market is nothing in itself, since it arises through interaction and manipulation by firms as rooted in the notion that the firm acts and behaves in its own self-interests. Individuals communicate in an interactive or face-to-face manner, where the building of relations consists of concrete meetings between actors, conduct business and creating the market to meet their own financial benefits. Therefore, there is a disconnection between the science of economics, which focuses on structures and universal laws from what is experienced in everyday of life of business activity. The everyday of life of business is processual, dynamic, contradiction, interactive on many levels and above all the financially powerful benefactors.
Keywords: science, economic, market, the Firm, qualitative, interaction, process, dynamics, manipulation, power
Biography: 
Dr. Clark is an internationally recognized as a respected expert, author, lecturer, public speaker who consults on global and local solutions to climate change core focus in economic smart healthy green communities. In the1990s after being a Fulbright Fellow at AAlborg University, Denmark, Clark returned to California as First Manager of Technology Transfer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and contributing scientist to UN Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change (UNIPCC) awarded Nobel Peace Prize in December 2007. From 2000-2003, Clark was Advisor, Renewable Energy, Emerging Technologies and Finance to California Governor Gray Davis. In early 2004, Clark founded and managed Clark Strategic Partners (CSP), a global environmental and renewable energy consulting firm.
Clark changed the name to Clark Communications Strategic Partners in order to bring back his work into the media for economics, climate change and environmental solutions.
From 2015-2019, Clark taught courses in July at University of International Relations (UIR) in Beijing and gave International Speeches on “Environment Economics” and “Circular Economics”. He was appointed (July 2016) to be on the Editorial Board for the Energy Review Journal (ERJ) in China. His book on Green Industrial Revolution (2015) was translated into Mandarin (2014) as Green Development. Clark was selected to be a member of the UN Paris Accord B20 Finance Task Force supported in 2016 by China and then Germany in 2017. Clark has over 90 peer reviewed papers with the last on August 2020 in the Science Journal about the science of Circular Economics.
Clark published 17 books by the end of 2020 and one more coming in 2021 which reflects his concern for global sustainable green communities. His books are authored and edited on topics such as The Next Economics (Springer, 2012) and Global Sustainable Communities Design Handbook (Elsevier, 2014). In addition, his latest co-authored books with Grant Cooke are  Green Industrial Revolution (Elsevier, 2015) and Smart Green Healthy Cities (Routledge, February 2016). Other books were published Agile Energy Systems (2004 and 2017) (2nd Ed Elsevier Press), Sustainable Communities Design Handbook (2nd Ed Elsevier Press 2017) and his PhD Thesis updated into a book Violence in Schools and Universities (Nova Press, 2017). Then Agile Energy Systems 2nd Ed Elsevier Press, 2018), Climate Preservation (Elsevier Press 2018), Qualitative Economics2nd Ed (Springer 2019) and Qualitative and Quantitative Economics (Q2E) (Nova Press2019) Sustainable Mega Cities and Communities (Elsevier Press, 2020) (Elsevier Press, 2020) and Circular Economics (Springer Press, 2021). Clark earned three MA degrees in Illinois and PhD. University of California, Berkeley in 1977.