HeyJaredOur Long Walk
South Africa's economic past, present and future
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- 46
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- Nov 12, 2026
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- Mar 27, 2026
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How I use AI (third edition) (opens the original)
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As this arrives in your mailbox, I’m on my way to the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study for an exciting day of presentations. With my friend Willem Fourie of the Policy Innovation Lab, I’ve organised a conference on ‘AI and economic policymaking’. We have David Yanagizawa-Drott and a host of other economists giving presentations, and a panel with policymakers from the Presidency and Treasury talking about how AI could improve South Africa’s policy process. Feedback in due course. Given t…
King of your own dunghill (opens the original)
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A friend of a friend has built a large following on YouTube doing something that would have puzzled my grandparents: she opens packs of Pokémon cards. You never see her face. All the camera shows are her hands turning each card while her voice describes what collectors look for. To almost everyone passing her in a shopping mall in Pretoria or Stellenbosch, she is an ordinary stranger. Yet to thousands of collectors around the world, she is a minor celebrity. Social media has changed how we attai…
The #econhist class of 26/27 (opens the original)
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Every year, I compile a list of the job market candidates with an economic history specialisation. This is the fourth edition; the earlier lists are here: 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26. I apply three criteria for inclusion. First, candidates must state on their website (or appear on a departmental roster) that they are on the job market this year. Second, they must have a job market paper. Third, they must list economic history as an interest, or their job market paper must study a historical set…
The price of a year (opens the original)
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In July 2023 I wrote on this blog that ‘removing South Africa from AGOA would be devastating for the South African economy’. To make the case, I quoted an estimate that the US tariff on citrus from countries without a trade arrangement lay between $1.5 and $2.5 per kilogram. But I had made a mistake. The tariff the United States charges on fresh oranges from any WTO member without a trade deal is 1.9 US cents per kilogram, about a hundredth of that figure. On a 15kg carton of navels it comes to …
STEM for everyone (opens the original)
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In the age of AI, is STEM still necessary? That was the question I was asked at dinner last month. The hosts were Mindjoy, an AI edtech company that builds AI tutors for schools and universities across South Africa, including Stellenbosch University, where I teach. In our department we are already seeing the results of these tools in the classroom, and next year I will run a pilot AI assessment in a new course I am teaching – more on that in future posts. In the room (the lovely Wijnhuis, in Ste…
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