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Title: | Controversies about Capitalism and Apartheid in South Africa: An Economic Perspective |
Author: | Nattrass, Nicoli J. |
Year: | 1991 |
Periodical: | Journal of Southern African Studies |
Volume: | 17 |
Issue: | 4 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 654-677 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | apartheid capitalism Politics and Government Ethnic and Race Relations Economics and Trade |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/2637365 |
Abstract: | The relationship between growth, distribution and apartheid policy in South Africa has been the subject of debate for several decades. This paper reviews the controversy about the relationship between apartheid and capitalism from an economic perspective. On the methodological side it is argued that different understandings of wage determination and of the distinction between the interests of capital and capitalism, have been a source of confusion. The old 'liberal-radical' debate was concerned with the clash between neoclassical and revisionist Marxist economic ideas to the detriment of alternative economic perspectives. Over the past decade, however, social-democratic ideas have become more popular and represent a potential middle ground between the old extremes. Notes, ref. |