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African Cheetahs
I recently read Bob Allen’s latest “Global Economic History”. It’s a great book, it takes less than a day to read (which is a huge plus) and it is inexpensive (R98), so there is no reason not to buy and read it. The book summarises what we know about the economic development of the various countries and continents across the world. I particularly enjoyed reading about the regions I know little about, like South American, Russian and Japanese economic development. For Africa, Allen explains not the episodes of progress, but attempts to explain why Africa is poor (and has always been so). This is a fashionable topic: a number of academic and popular books and papers have recently appeared attempting to identify the causal determinants of Africa’s destitution.
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The End of His History
Last night, I attended a guest lecture by Francis Fukuyama at UCT. Fukuyama is known for his book ‘The End of History and the Last Man’ but published the first of a two-volume ‘The Origins of Political Order’ this year, which was also the topic of his speech.
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