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What makes the majority of Scottish people that different from the majority of the UK?
Again, you re-appear to try and make this straw-man argument that implies people in Scotland think they are somehow better. I'm not even going to bother rising to it.
Re: London-centric economic policy: You clearly know more than Nobel prize-winning economists so I'll leave you to enjoy that perspective and insight yourself. Personally, I feel that we could have a currency pegged to the value of the pound and still be successful, but that this is the less preferred option to forming a sterling-zone.
Re: difference: we're different from the majority of people in the UK in that we're Scottish, and not English, Welsh or Irish. Apart from any difference in identity and values that this implies, our political and economic ecology are incredibly different from the population-dense South of England. Obviously, a large amount of people feel that the UK political system is so badly representative of their needs and aspirations that they would prefer independence and the ability to democratically elect politicians that better reflect these.
Obviously, no political system is perfect, but there are degrees of perfection and imperfection that are acceptable. I, like many others, find Westminster politics with all that it represents unacceptable, inefficient, and badly serving an absolute majority of people in the UK.
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You are not going to end London-centric economic policy without refusing a currency union.
It still seems like a lot of your arguments are based on some difference that exists in Scotland that will allow it to succeed where the UK is destined to fail. The UK is failing part of it's population all the time, even if you raise taxes for the wealthy to 90% and give it all to the poor you will be perceived as failing by a minority. What makes the majority of Scottish people that different from the majority of the UK?