Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom, 2nd edition
Johan Fourie
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
Why do the Japanese play rugby? How did Einstein help create Eskom? Who is the richest man in history? Johan Fourie explores these questions and many more in this revised and expanded second edition of his bestseller Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom – an entertaining, accessible economic history spanning everything from the human migration out of Africa 100 000 years ago to the present. This enriching journey through an African-centred history reveals the roots and reasons for prosperity.
Kundenbewertungen
<em>The Economist</em>, Nelson Mandela, South African history, gold, globalisation, Lenin, custom and command, economics, Wakanda, rugby, slavery in Africa, rich-poor divide, Madiba, Eskom, Lego, lobola, economic inequality, communism, feudalism, Johan Fourie, Stalin, </em>Settlers of Catan, F Scott Fitzgerald, Out-of-Africa, history, <em>Frankenstein</em>, the Great Trek, trade and industry, growth of prosperity, European imperialism in Africa, exploitation of Africa, World War I, diamonds, economic development in Africa, South African economics, World War II, Blombos, Sol Plaatje, wealth and poverty, economic history, apartheid history, <em>Sapiens, colonialism in Africa, the spinning jenny, <em>The Great Gatsby</em>, Ford, the Mfecane, African history, Albert Einstein, Industrial Revolution