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#Econhist papers I (mostly) admire, July 2024
On maize, migrants, anti-Muslim sentiment, agglomeration, prostitution, fashion and what it takes to rule a kingdom...
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Johan Fourie
Why Cape Town should host the 2040 Olympic Games
To build faster, higher and stronger
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Johan Fourie
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Why Does isiXhosa Have Clicks?
A fully updated Chapter 5 of Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom
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Johan Fourie
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The New Pact
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'We can avoid our seemingly inevitable descent into more economic misery'
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Decoding the Stellenbosch mafia
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Why the West(ern Cape) is growing faster than the Rest
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When historians ignore economics
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'What is the heaviest load in life?'
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On foxgloves, flies and making culture fashionable
How the field of cultural evolution can provide new insights into solving social, political and business challenges
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Johan Fourie
To kill two birds with one stone
GUEST POST: What is the economic value of wildlife to humankind?
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Jules Skotnes-Brown
The next big hit
Progressive policymakers should bet on exports – like spekboom jam 😊 – and back them
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Johan Fourie
'What is the heaviest load in life?'
BUSINESS INTELLECTUALS: I spoke to Ebbe Dommisse, author of 'Anton Rupert: The Life of a Business Icon', about one of South Africa's most famous…
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Johan Fourie
A dying read
Newspapers are dead. Long live the newspaper.
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Johan Fourie
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#Econhist papers I (mostly) admire, June 2024
On stories, steam power, chimney smoke, suffrage, text sources and much more...
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Johan Fourie
One more turn
Six things the creators of Civilizations VII can learn from economic history
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Johan Fourie
Is African inequality inevitable?
GUEST POST: High skills premia make African firms less competitive and mean that African governments will struggle to hold on to their most skilled…
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Rebecca Simson
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Pen pals
Advice for writing with large language models
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Our Long Walk
Our Long Walk
South Africa's economic past, present and future
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