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Title: | Progressive Academic Economists and the Challenge of Development in South Africa's Decade of Liberation |
Author: | Padayachee, Vishnu |
Year: | 1998 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 25 |
Issue: | 77 |
Period: | September |
Pages: | 431-450 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | scientists democracy economics Development and Technology Economics and Trade |
External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056249808704324 http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=49DD97ED41429701D298 |
Abstract: | This article examines the relationship between progressive academic economists and anti-apartheid social movements in the period that has come to be known as South Africa's decade of liberation, roughly the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. It does so through an examination of the interaction of progressive economists with social movements in South Africa since 1985, an interaction which occurred in the main via policy research networks and think tanks, such as the Economic Trends Research Group (ET), the Industrial Strategy Project (ISP) and the Macroeconomic Research Group (MERG). Thereafter the paper examines the role that these academic economists played in the formulation of the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP), the RDP White Paper (1994) and the Growth, Employment and Redistribution Strategy (GEAR) (1996). It also provides answers to the question of why many of South Africa's progressive economists underwent a transformation in their economic thinking in the mid-1990s. The argument is that South African academics and intellectuals are far from independent; they are the creatures and creations of their time. Their positions depend upon their shifting circumstances and the demands placed on them. Ultimately, the explanation for the change in economic thinking rests on the politics of the transition itself. Bibliogr., sum. |