The public positions of the leaders of business and labour at the Economic Development Conference on Infrastructure provided the strongest indication yet, that a national accord on infrastructure investment plan could be reachable.
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Outliers –The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell fails to explain success, but does offer an interesting and well written argument.
Is Tim Ferris killing Main Street? Reviewing the Four Hour Workweek
Book review of “The 4-Hour Workweek” focusing on the implications of globalisation for small businesses.
Nationalise! Expropriate! The Pillars for Economic Transformation according to the ANCYL
This article provides a high level summary of the ANCYL discussion document on economic transformation.
Book Launch – Poor economics by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Can better public policy be acheived through focussing less on premade solutions, and more on understanding what works and what has been a failure? The book Poor Economics, provides an argument for rethinking anti-poverty policy. This article summarises thoughts at the Johannesburg launch of the book.
A “politically immature” note on non-racialism and inequality
Notes on the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation symposium on the “Prospects for Non-racialism”
Three things the National Planning Commission should be doing
Proposes a way to make the National Planning Commission work more open and transparent.