Archive - Our Long Walk

To test transformation

My submission on South Africa's Draft Transformation Fund Concept Document

Apr 14 •

How a 19th-century Cape coffee boom reveals the hidden consequences of Trump’s new tariff war

Apr 11 •

Day Zero lessons

The hidden trade-offs between efficiency and equity

Apr 7 •

An autumn of autarky

The Trump tariffs and how South Africa should respond to it

Apr 4 •

Can war be creative?

EPISODE 10: Jonathan and I speak to Oxford University historian Richard Reid about war, state formation and the revolutions shaping Africa before the…

Apr 1 •

48:20

March 2025

A shot in the arm

How South Africa can turn the USAID closures into an opportunity to recruit world-leading medical scientists

Mar 31 •

Why, where and how to do a PhD in Economics

Mar 28 •

Degrowth is deranged

A new paper in Lancet shows the limits of this fledgling field

Mar 24 •

Love like an economic historian

Behind ye paywall doth wisdom dwell

Mar 21 •

Science, outsourced

How AI will make South Africa's science funding model obsolete

Mar 17 •

VAT’s on the menu?

The hidden cost of staggered VAT increases

Mar 14 •

What if borders were never meant to last?

EPISODE 9: Jonathan and I speak to Elias Papaioannou about how history, religion, geography, politics and borders continue to shape Africa’s economic…

Mar 11 •

55:28

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