#38 Our long walk to economic freedom - Johan Fourie, Economic Historian at Stellenbosch University

Having spent the past year on the African continent, I am now in the final stages of this series of African guests. This time I am talking to the economics professor and economic historian Johan Fourie. He is something like the South African Noah Yuval Harari whom most people know for his book Sapiens - A short history of mankind. Johan wrote a book as well called “Our long walk to economic freedom”. In this book he tells the history of human development, the role that economics play for progress and most importantly: he tells this story from a South African perspective. We talk about the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship for development and I get his take as an economist on climate change and AI. I think from time to time it is good to get an academic’s overview of things to complement the views of founders on the ground. Enjoy! Feel free to reach out to me on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pascal-mies/Check out Johan's substack: https://johanfourie.substack.comand give his book "Our long walk to economic freedom" a try: https://www.johanfourie.com/ourlongwalk/