The political economy of South Africa: from minerals-energy complex to industrialisation

Democratization in South Africa has been accompanied by continuing and even deepening economic inequalities.

Rather than proposing a blueprint for a more equable economic system, this book presents the results and implications of wide-ranging research on the history and current dynamics of the South African economy over the past fifty years.

The authors analyze a range of strategic economic trajectories, linking these to the shifting balance of economic and political power, and they set the parameters within which the economic and political debates are conducted.