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Title: | Ideas and power: academic economists and the making of economic policy: the South African experience in comparative perspective (1985-2007) |
Authors: | Padayachee, Vishnu Sherbut, Graham |
Year: | 2011 |
Periodical: | Cahiers d'études africaines (ISSN 0008-0055) |
Volume: | 51 |
Issue: | 202-203 |
Pages: | 609-647 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | economic policy economic theories 1980-1989 1990-1999 2000-2009 |
Abstract: | This working paper written in 2007 reviews a quarter of a century of economic policy debates and reflections in South Africa during the last ten years of apartheid and after the coming into power of the ANC in 1994. It focuses on the relationship between academics, experts and governmental actors, as well as on foreign economists. It demonstrates the changing perspectives of former anti-apartheid activists and their subsequent alignment with international and national liberal orthodoxy. The paper concludes with a positive vision of what could be a more radical policy thinking and of a new militant mood of analysis. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [Journal abstract] |