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A football is not enough
What the FIFA World Cup have taught me about economic growth
Jun 11
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Johan Fourie
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The procurement trap
What two recent AER papers say about Treasury's draft procurement regulations
Jun 8
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Johan Fourie
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Can a pill solve poverty?
There is no shortcut to eradicating stunting
Jun 4
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Johan Fourie
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The ruinous growth of sports betting in South Africa
Jun 9, 2025
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Fourie vs StatsSA
Jul 4, 2025
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Why America wants Afrikaners
Feb 10, 2025
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The battle for Botmaskop
May 5, 2025
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Neoliberal what what
Jun 23, 2025
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How I use AI
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Animals do well where people do well
A hundred years of the Kruger National Park
Jun 1
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The most schooled people in Africa
What funded founders have in common – and what it means for backing the next one
May 28
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Johan Fourie
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Champions, finally
An ode to Arsenal – and Arseblog
May 25
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Johan Fourie
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A picture is worth 34,000 numbers
On statistics, psychic numbing and three Fourie girls in the Anglo-Boer War
May 21
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Johan Fourie
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Running towards
How economics can help us understand even the bleakest of histories
May 18
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Johan Fourie
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Skills for economic historians
...and anyone else using Claude Code
May 14
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Johan Fourie
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An AI policy that empowers
South Africa's withdrawal of its AI draft policy is an opportunity. We should use it.
May 11
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Johan Fourie
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What we've built
South Africa's constitution at 30
May 7
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Johan Fourie
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Why didn't slavery wither away?
SEASON 2, EPISODE 12: Warren Whatley on Africa as Europe's mirror image, the gun-slave cycle, the manumission puzzle, and much, much more...
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