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Why 1976?

Widening the pipeline

A football is not enough

The procurement trap

Can a pill solve poverty?

Animals do well where people do well

The most schooled people in Africa

Champions, finally

A picture is worth 34,000 numbers

Running towards

Skills for economic historians

An AI policy that empowers

What we've built

Why didn't slavery wither away?

I err, therefore I am

Workless

History for builders

What I told our HoDs about AI

Bigness is goodness

The oldest tool in the book

Can AI speak Igbo?

Why South Africa needs a data observatory

Inequality is not new

Mind the gap, South Africa

Fear of the box

The preacher's assistant

The invisible hand at the crease

First of December

'South Africa is this underexploited source of insight'

Our scientific future

The Cape's colonial elites

When does marriage stop making economic sense?

Uninvited

Clans, corporations ... and clones

What to ask Tyler Cowen

Red carpet economics

Commitment devices

A firm budget

Research quality and ways to improve it

Why do we find it so hard to care about the rights of other people?

Imagining progress

The – new – heavy plough

Rainbow Nation 2.0?

Should you buy the dip?

Twenty years at Stellenbosch

Three lessons from the 18th-century Cape

Are we suffering from a crisis of imagination?

Newspapers that write history

Who Was The Perfect Soldier?

Fighting fires

The latest, greatest #econhist research

How to win Afcon

Can everyone in the world escape poverty?

Why sports betting is taking off

Our Long Walk in 2026

This will be a BAD year