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Our Long Walk
Economic history from a South African perspective
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An optimist’s guide to inflation in South Africa
Don't worry too much about overheating
Aug 1
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Why you want to be in Paris this week
No, it's not for the Tour de France
Jul 25
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'One of the most humane economic histories I have read'
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How globalisation reduced global inequality
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Moving on... and up
Photo by Kamil Szumotalski on Unsplash They met on the road to Amsterdam. We don't know exactly where, but somewhere between Schaffhausen in Switzerland…
Jul 11
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Why growth matters for South Africa
Photo by Anurag Yadav on Unsplash South Africa’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), a measure of a country’s economic performance, is back to its pre-Covid…
Jun 27
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Closing the talent gap
Photo by Hennie Stander on Unsplash Two friends recently applied for jobs in the private sector. One of them had six interviews, the last of which was…
Jun 20
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It is not all so bad
Photo by Tray Smith It is difficult not to be pessimistic about South Africa’s economic prospects at the moment. Yesterday the South African Reserve…
May 30
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My own long walk
Photo by Savannah Koomen on Unsplash Tomorrow I deliver my inaugural lecture at Stellenbosch University. I joined the Economics department in 2006, just…
May 16
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Time travelling with credit markets
Photo by Mert Kahveci on Unsplash Just before the British occupied the Cape in 1795, Johannes Frederik Kirsten wrote a letter to the British government…
May 9
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Playing alone: Covid-19 and the education gap
Photo by Joshua Hoehne on Unsplash A few weeks ago, I found myself in a Home Affairs queue. The seven hours it took me to reach the front of the queue…
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