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Could AI topple South Africa’s system of science funding?
Yes, and that is a good thing
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Johan Fourie
How numbers can help recover the past
'Quantitative History and Uncharted People' out in September
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Johan Fourie
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Guest post: Is the diamond losing its shine?
The future of Botswana
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Leo Dolan
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Why the West(ern Cape) is growing faster than the Rest
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If I were Ramaphosa, I'd call these people
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Guest post: How the Chinese fixed loadshedding
 • Roy Havemann
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What I would study
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Why 2022 was the year of global economic history
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What do an Afrikaans singer, an ostrich with a Kitkat and Vermeer at the Voortrekker Monument have in common?
Art-ificial intelligence
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Johan Fourie
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Population pressures
One thing South Africans don't have to worry about
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Johan Fourie
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Guest post: Kikuyu counterfactuals
Ethnic favouritism and its discontents
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Rebecca Simson
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What we learn from Cape wheat farmers in 1825
Labour (management) may be more important than access to capital
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Johan Fourie
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Transformation travesty
The unintended consequences of the Employment Equity Bill
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Johan Fourie
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Leaders are not randomly selected
Research on African favouritism suffers from endogeneity issues
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Johan Fourie
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Guest post: Factory fit
If industrial policy is back, how can we make it more effective?
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Malan Rietveld
Our Long Walk
Our Long Walk
Reflections on economic history, from a South African perspective
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