Apartheid

Art Carden and Christopher Lingle

Chapter 5 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Public Choice, 2025, pp 33-36 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Apartheid was an array of racist laws governing South Africa from the election of the National Party in 1948 until the election of Nelson Mandela in 1994. Apartheid's codified racism required discrimination, violated the rights of individuals as individuals, and shackled the South African economy for special interests’ transitory benefit. Apartheid combined mercantilism, colonialism, nationalism, and socialism with racism to produce a constellation of oppressive institutions that cost the country dearly in blood and treasure by limiting its potential to develop internally and eventually leading to its isolation from international markets.

Keywords: Apartheid; Racism; Institutions; South Africa; Colonialism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781802207743
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