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Progress reporting

Who was the Last King of Scotland?

The curious case of regional GDP*

'South Africans have an amazing capacity to generate creative solutions'

Lingonomics

#Econhist papers I (mostly) admire, November 2024

What is Africa's ideal development model?

No rules

The #econhist class of 24/25

Guerilla tactics

Substacking from South Africa

Why is your boss not funny?

'A firm that can bottle critical thinking has a real future'

Are we in the long or longer run?

What we can learn from America

Why Can you Have Any Car as Long as it is Black?

The Rainbow Corridor

#Econhist papers I (mostly) admire, October 2024

What the Bible teaches us about men and women – and the future of our planet

What can economists learn from ubuntu?

Can you say SDGs?

Institutions (and generosity) matter

Colonialism misquoted

Simple sophistication

Combatting domestic violence

'Most VCs today are not visionaries'

How to fix the state

#Econhist papers I (mostly) admire, September 2024

Are good intentions bad?

Stories have power

What do an Indonesian volcano, Frankenstein and Shaka Zulu have in common?

Robot radio

What we learn in school

An outsider’s perspective

How South Africa can medal up

'The future is already here – it is only unevenly distributed'

What is the moral of your story?

The most difficult question of all

Feel it, it is here

How to win with AI

#Econhist papers I (mostly) admire, August 2024

Syphilis and the NHI

Why was a Giraffe the Perfect Gift for the Chinese Emperor?

Who won the Olympics?

Counterfactual Cape Town

Data and the two lessons from history

'I’m hugely thankful for the transactions I did not close'

A GNU narrative

#Econhist papers I (mostly) admire, July 2024

Why Cape Town should host the 2040 Olympic Games

Why Does isiXhosa Have Clicks?

On foxgloves, flies and making culture fashionable

To kill two birds with one stone

The next big hit

'What is the heaviest load in life?'

A dying read

#Econhist papers I (mostly) admire, June 2024

One more turn

Is African inequality inevitable?

Pen pals

Twenty-four books for Winter 2024

How do you make a Blueberry Sparkler?

Why are the Danes so individualistic?

What will happen to the Rand?

#Econhist papers I (mostly) admire, May 2024

Today we celebrate democracy

Why I will vote for the Science Party

'We do not punch above our weight – we are punching ourselves'

Populism is everywhere

How to fix South Africa

2024 is our 1924

The New Pact

Those who see the future

A 'spirit of speculation'

Our long walk to freedom at thirty

#Econhist papers I (mostly) admire, April 2024

Jamaica has a bad-debt team

'The idea that you are going to change a person’s attitude towards a business by giving them shareholding is wrong'

A most dangerous profession

The entrepreneurial continent

The problem of information pollution

Beyond words

A bad example

'History, unlike spreadsheets, doesn’t always give you the answer that you want'

On runners and fighters

#Econhist papers I (mostly) admire, Mar 2024

Books

When historians ignore economics

A-maize-ing

When economists ignore history

Globalisation, recurring

Izinhanha

'Let's remove this uncaring, unpatriotic and corrupt government from power'

Is social media damaging Generation Alpha?

#Econhist papers I (mostly) admire, Feb 2024

Before we go BIG, let's learn to build big

Let's read 60 papers

The Four Horsemen of the university

'We can avoid our seemingly inevitable descent into more economic misery'

A Stellenbosch history guide

Rebels with a cause

The Age of Sinistrality

#Econhist papers I (mostly) admire, Jan 2024

The rise of the African Crocodiles

Ten questions that 2024 might answer: Part 2

In search of South Africa's Javier Milei

Ten questions that 2024 might answer: Part 1

When do prayers work?

Is Africa still rising?

The next step on Our Long Walk