Cliometrics in South Africa

Johan Fourie

No 14/2018, Working Papers from Stellenbosch University, Department of Economics

Abstract: African economic history is experiencing a renaissance, and South African economic history likewise. Combining newly transcribed large historical datasets with econometric techniques now standard in the economics literature, economic historians have greatly improved our understanding of South Africa's development over the centuries. Yet many questions remain. This paper reviews the most recent contributions, and outlines the road ahead.

Keywords: economic history; historical economics; cliometrics; econometric history; South Africa; Cape Colony (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N01 N37 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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