South Africa's economic past, present and future
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Two lessons for a four per cent country
My talk at Standard Bank tonight
In April, on a stage in Washington, DC, Sim Tshabalala made a claim that would have sounded reckless five years ago: South Africa could lift its medium-term growth rate to between 3 and 4 per cent. The chie...
Morality was forged in the marketplace
On Monday I typed my name at the bottom of a one-page statement titled ‘We Must Act Now’, joining Erik Brynjolfsson, Daron Acemoglu, Joseph Stiglitz, Ben Bernanke and dozens of others – among them more than a dozen Nobel laureates. The stat...
Cut and dried
The Economic History Society turns 100. As the machines take over the craft, judgement becomes scarce
On the evening of 14 July 1926, in a room at the London School of Economics, a small group of scholars sat down to inaugurate the Economi...
Economists in the newsroom
What, really, is the job of a columnist?
This week marks four years since I moved to Substack. I arrived in July 2022 with about 400 subscribers, carried over from my decade-old WordPress blog. Today there are more than six and a half thou...
A stoep on Botmaskop
'Stellenbosch today must be considered fully developed'
On 5 May 1967, Prof AC Cilliers, a retired professor of theoretical physics and author of a book on the limits of growth, wrote an article in Die Burger lamenting the development of S...
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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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