South Africa's economic past, present and future
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A local Parliament
In April 1903, a Mr W. H. Dobson wrote to the Rand Daily Mail about the health of Johannesburg. At 17 years old, the town had some 300 miles of well laid-out streets, most of them lit by electricity. It had ‘many noble and beautiful buildin...
To whom it may concern
Why you should attend more conferences in the age of agentic AI
As this lands in your mailbox, I’m attending the last day of a two-day conference in Lund, Sweden. Later today I leave for Gothenburg for another: the annual meeting of the Af...
Table turners
‘The results are startling.’ I wrote that sentence in 2013, in a paper in the Economic History Review about the wealth of settlers at the eighteenth-century Cape. I had compared two unrelated sources – the probate inventories drawn up when...
Resolutely human?
In the first week of October, machines wrote two things that matter for South African universities. On 6 October, OpenAI released 722 mathematics papers written by its AI agents – ‘probably the biggest day of scientific advancement in histo...
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South African economic historian and author of 'Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom' (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
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