I see from Wikipedia he is related to Helen Suzman, the prominent opponent of Apartheid in South Africa when apartheid was still going. ( I vaguely recall her when I was a teenager living in South Africa)
James’ book <i>Affluence Without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen</i>. sounds very interesting – shades of Marshall Sahlin’s seminal “Stone Age Economics: The Original Affluent Society”
Do you have any links to useful articles he might have written, Thomas? What he seems to be saying would indeed seem to be quite relevant to what we are saying and for that reason, I agree it would be worth contacting him