By CNBC Africa -January 26, 2016 Patronage and racial divides are offshoots of failed economics, this is according to independent strategy adviser Shawn Hagedorn. “It should not come as a surprise that failed economics is responsible for racial tensions as there is a correlation between failed race relations and stressed economy,” Hagedorn told CNBC Africa. “There are…Continue reading Is failed economics behind S.Africa’s racial tensions?
Race tensions as a function of failed economics
By CNBC Africa -January 25, 2016 Independent strategy adviser Shawn Hagedorn says huge resource endowments that encourage patronage and racial divides while discouraging competitiveness and global integration is the source of a defective political economy. CNBC Africa spoke to him to discuss race tensions as a function of failed economics.
How to undo race-resource curse
JANUARY 2016 – 08:02 The writer argues that racism risks undermining the empathy South Africans need to negotiate workable responses to a global economy that demands policies focused on competitiveness. Picture: SUNDAY TIMES Competition and integration must defeat patronage and the scourge of poverty, writes Shawn Hagedorn BIOLOGISTS and political theorists concur: altruism is proportionate…Continue reading How to undo race-resource curse
South Africa: Cursed with abundant resources
21 JANUARY 2016 – 14:38 Much of the white vitriol critical of SA’s government is inspired by fat cats supping as the nation wobbles Biologists and political theorists concur: altruism is proportionate to shared genes. Brothers and sisters favour each other ahead of cousins. Racial biases are as natural, and as limiting, as stone tools.…Continue reading South Africa: Cursed with abundant resources