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The Olympic Games as industrial policy
Why I (still) think Cape Town should host the Olympic Games
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Make African Economic History great again!
My keynote at the African Economic History Network meetings in Maseru yesterday
Oct 31
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What lives inside 'Don't know'?
SEASON 2, EPISODE 5: Jenny Trinitapoli on uncertainty, beans, Balaka’s market, and why the world is becoming more African
Oct 28
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The ruinous growth of sports betting in South Africa
Jun 9
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Fourie vs StatsSA
Jul 4
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Why America wants Afrikaners
Feb 10
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The battle for Botmaskop
May 5
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Neoliberal what what
Jun 23
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How I use AI
Sep 5
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Hamba kakuhle, totsiens, goodbye
Why emigration can be good for South Africa's economy
Oct 27
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The poorest continent
Poverty will soon be an exclusively African phenomenon and, frustratingly, remain so for long
Oct 24
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A Nobel idea
Innovation is the way to build a more prosperous society. South Africa should take note.
Oct 20
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The thin pipeline
Why are there so few South Africans doing a PhD in Economics in the US?
Oct 17
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Measuring South Africa's economic pulse
Treatment begins with knowing the true condition
Oct 13
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Padel safari
South Africa's latest super niche export
Oct 10
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What returns when talent leaves?
SEASON 2, EPISODE 4: Cátia Batista on mobile money’s unintended consequences, rethinking 'brain drain', the power of diasporas and much, much more…
Oct 7
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Bicycles of the mind
My notes for a panel discussion on AI at Stellenbosch University's Research Indaba
Oct 6
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Do South Africa's economists matter?
An economist self-reflects
Oct 3
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