Johan Fourie

Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University

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Johan Fourie is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Economic History. He obtained his PhD at Utrecht University in 2012, has published in several leading economic history journals, is editor of Economic History of Developing Regions and coordinator of the Laboratory for the Economics of Africa’s Past (LEAP).

AEHN Textbook Chapters

• The Rise of Education in Africa

  Johan Fourie

AEHN Working Papers

2019

• AEHN Working Paper #47
  The Great Divergence in South Africa: Population and Wealth Dynamics over two Centuries

  Dieter von Fintel and Johan Fourie

2018

• AEHN Working Paper #42
  Was Slavery a Flexible Form of Labour? Division of Labour and Location Specific Skills on the Eastern Cape Frontier

  Calumet Links, Johan Fourie and Erik Green

2016

• AEHN Working Paper #30
  “For the Public Benefit” Railways in the British Cape Colony

  Alfonso Herranz-Loncán and Johan Fourie

2012

• AEHN Working Paper #1
  Moving Forward in African Economic History: Bridging the Gap Between Methods and Sources

  Morten Jerven, Gareth Austin, Erik Green, Chibuike Uche, Ewout Frankema, Johan Fourie, Joseph Inikori, Alexander Moradi and Ellen Hillbom

AEHN Blog Articles

• The data revolution in African Economic History

  Johan Fourie - 7 November 2016