Johan Fourie – African Economic History Network

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Johan Fourie is Professor 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 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

2020

AEHN Working Paper #53
When Cape Slavery Ended: Evidence from a New Slave Emancipation Dataset
Kate Ekama, Johan Fourie, Hans Hesse and Lisa Martin

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
Mineral Beneficence in Developing Regions: Insights from the Cape’s Public Finance Policies, 1820-1910
Abel Gwaindepi, Krige Siebrits and Johan Fourie - 21 December 2020