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Trump’s Energy Secretary Offers Africa Freedom from Biden’s Climate Imperialism

28 Mar 2025 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA Tags: 2024 presidential election, Africa

“It’s a paternalistic post-colonial attitude that I just can’t stand,” Wright said of the climate evangelism that sought to force others to abandon fossil fuels and adopt largely useless technologies like solar and wind energy.
Trump’s Energy Secretary Offers Africa Freedom from Biden’s Climate Imperialism

The capitalist revolution Africa needs

31 Jan 2025 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, history of economic thought Tags: Africa

Economist: In the coming years Africa will become more important than at any time in the modern era. Over the next decade its share of the world’s population is expected to reach 21%, up from 13% in 2000, 9% in 1950 and 11% in 1800. As the rest of the world ages, Africa will become…
The capitalist revolution Africa needs

Before the scramble (1876)

08 Jan 2025 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in defence economics, economic history, war and peace Tags: Africa, age of empires, economics of colonialism

Africa

09 Dec 2024 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: Africa

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Africa

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by Jim Rose in defence economics, economic history, war and peace Tags: Africa, age of empires, economics of colonialism, maps

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Main medieval slave routes in Africa

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by Jim Rose in economic history, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, liberalism Tags: Africa, economics of slavery

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The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier (2007)

05 Jan 2024 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, defence economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, history of economic thought, war and peace Tags: Africa

Catching up is about radically raising growth in the countries now at the bottom…This book sets out an [aid] agenda for the G8 that would be effective. (The Bottom Billion, pages 12 and 13) Sir Paul Collier, Commander of the British Empire (CBE) and Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) is a British development economist […]
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier (2007)

Out of Africa

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by Jim Rose in economic history, economics of education, economics of media and culture Tags: Africa

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African maps

18 Jun 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in International law Tags: Africa, age of empires, economics of colonialism

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Facts about Africa’s Geography never taught in schools |Thomas Sowell

26 Jun 2022 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in defence economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, Thomas Sowell Tags: Africa

Why didn’t Russia Also Scramble Africa?

15 Jan 2021 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in defence economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, international economic law, international economics, International law, Public Choice Tags: Africa, economics of colonialism

Sierra Leone after independence

16 May 2020 Leave a comment

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I love maps

05 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, growth disasters, transport economics Tags: Africa, maps

Posner on AIDS in Africa

10 Mar 2020 Leave a comment

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The scramble for Africa

30 Oct 2019 Leave a comment

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