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The Olympic Games as industrial policy
Why I (still) think Cape Town should host the Olympic Games
Nov 3 • 
Johan Fourie
Make African Economic History great again!
My keynote at the African Economic History Network meetings in Maseru yesterday
Oct 31 • 
Johan Fourie
52:15
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 • Johan Fourie
Fourie vs StatsSA
Jul 4 • Johan Fourie
Why America wants Afrikaners
Feb 10 • Johan Fourie
The battle for Botmaskop
May 5 • Johan Fourie
Neoliberal what what
Jun 23 • Johan Fourie
How I use AI
Sep 5 • Johan Fourie
Hamba kakuhle, totsiens, goodbye
Why emigration can be good for South Africa's economy
Oct 27 • 
Johan Fourie
The poorest continent
Poverty will soon be an exclusively African phenomenon and, frustratingly, remain so for long
Oct 24 • 
Johan Fourie
A Nobel idea
Innovation is the way to build a more prosperous society. South Africa should take note.
Oct 20 • 
Johan Fourie
The thin pipeline
Why are there so few South Africans doing a PhD in Economics in the US?
Oct 17 • 
Johan Fourie
Measuring South Africa's economic pulse
Treatment begins with knowing the true condition
Oct 13 • 
Johan Fourie
Padel safari
South Africa's latest super niche export
Oct 10 • 
Johan Fourie
45:12
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 • 
Johan Fourie
Bicycles of the mind
My notes for a panel discussion on AI at Stellenbosch University's Research Indaba
Oct 6 • 
Johan Fourie
Do South Africa's economists matter?
An economist self-reflects
Oct 3 • 
Johan Fourie
Our Long Walk
Our Long Walk
South Africa's economic past, present and future
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