Go to AfricaBib home

Go to AfricaBib home AfricaBib Go to database home

bibliographic database
Line
Previous page New search

The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here

Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:Ideas and power: academic economists and the making of economic policy: the South African experience in comparative perspective (1985-2007)
Authors:Padayachee, VishnuISNI
Sherbut, GrahamISNI
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]
Views
Cover