- Title Pages
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction Thinking Historically about Challenging Economic Issues
- Part One: Drivers of Long-term Economic Growth
- 1 The Industrious Revolution and Economic Growth, 1650–1830
- 2. English Apprenticeship: A Neglected Factor in the First Industrial Revolution
- 3. Human Capital and Productivity Performance: Britain, the United States and Germany, 1870–1990
- 4. General Purpose Technologies and Surges in Productivity: Historical Reflections on the Future of the ICT Revolution
- 5. Technological Systems and Comparative Systems of Innovation: From Historical Performance to Future Policy Guidelines
- Part Two: Changes in Economic Regimes and Ideologies
- 6. The East Asian Escape from Economic Backwardness: Retrospect and Prospect
- 7. The Russian Transition through the Historical Looking-glass: Gradual versus Abrupt Decontrol of Economic Systems in Britain and Russia
- 8. Rational Resistance to Land Privatization: The Behaviour of Russia’s Rural Producers in Response to Agrarian Reforms, 1861–2000
- 9. Understanding the Past to Reshape the Future: Problems of South Africa’s Transition
- 10. Lessons from Italy’s Monetary Unification (1862–1880) for the Euro and Europe’s Single Market
- 11. Ideology and the Shadow of History: A Perspective on the Great Depression
- Part Three: Welfare, Well-being and Individual Economic Security
- 12. Economic Welfare Measurements and Human Well-being
- 13. The Human Body in Britain: Past and Future
- 14. Height and the High Life: What Future for a Tall Story?
- 15. Producing Health in Past and Present: The Changing Roles of Scientific and Alternative Medicine
- 16. An Old Poor Law for the New Europe? Reconciling Local Solidarity with Labour Mobility in Early Modern England
- 17. Paying for Old Age: Past, Present, Future
- Name Index
- Subject Index
Understanding the Past to Reshape the Future: Problems of South Africa’s Transition
Understanding the Past to Reshape the Future: Problems of South Africa’s Transition
- Chapter:
- (p.296) (p.297) 9. Understanding the Past to Reshape the Future: Problems of South Africa’s Transition
- Source:
- The Economic Future in Historical Perspective
- Author(s):
Francis Wilson
- Publisher:
- British Academy
This chapter considers the problems of economic transition in South Africa. It begins by discussing the country's economic problems and their historical roots. It describes some of the major factors that helped to shape the South Africa which President Nelson Mandela inherited when he took office in 1994 and which the country's first democratic government has been attempting to reshape since then. Finally, the chapter assesses the ways in which a historical perspective illuminates the search for effective policies to resolve the problems.
Keywords: economic transition, transition, economic problems, South Africa, Nelson Mandela
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- Title Pages
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction Thinking Historically about Challenging Economic Issues
- Part One: Drivers of Long-term Economic Growth
- 1 The Industrious Revolution and Economic Growth, 1650–1830
- 2. English Apprenticeship: A Neglected Factor in the First Industrial Revolution
- 3. Human Capital and Productivity Performance: Britain, the United States and Germany, 1870–1990
- 4. General Purpose Technologies and Surges in Productivity: Historical Reflections on the Future of the ICT Revolution
- 5. Technological Systems and Comparative Systems of Innovation: From Historical Performance to Future Policy Guidelines
- Part Two: Changes in Economic Regimes and Ideologies
- 6. The East Asian Escape from Economic Backwardness: Retrospect and Prospect
- 7. The Russian Transition through the Historical Looking-glass: Gradual versus Abrupt Decontrol of Economic Systems in Britain and Russia
- 8. Rational Resistance to Land Privatization: The Behaviour of Russia’s Rural Producers in Response to Agrarian Reforms, 1861–2000
- 9. Understanding the Past to Reshape the Future: Problems of South Africa’s Transition
- 10. Lessons from Italy’s Monetary Unification (1862–1880) for the Euro and Europe’s Single Market
- 11. Ideology and the Shadow of History: A Perspective on the Great Depression
- Part Three: Welfare, Well-being and Individual Economic Security
- 12. Economic Welfare Measurements and Human Well-being
- 13. The Human Body in Britain: Past and Future
- 14. Height and the High Life: What Future for a Tall Story?
- 15. Producing Health in Past and Present: The Changing Roles of Scientific and Alternative Medicine
- 16. An Old Poor Law for the New Europe? Reconciling Local Solidarity with Labour Mobility in Early Modern England
- 17. Paying for Old Age: Past, Present, Future
- Name Index
- Subject Index
