South Africa's economic past, present and future
South African economic historian and author of 'Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom' (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
The number of free subscribers for Our Long Walk over time since it was added to the directory.
African political economy, foreign affairs, and general commentary.
By day, I lead the economic growth research at the Bureau for Economic Research (www.ber.ac.za/growth). I am the author of How to Fix (Unf#ck) A Country: 6 Things to Reboot South Africa, published by Jonathan Ball.
Both the millennia past and the new millennium. The economic world: working, making, apportioning, talking, & more. What I learn about it, largely through history, as I bet that humans are such the same that the future resonates if not reflects the past.