[State at Wits] Polecon 2 and 3

[Keith Breckenridge]

A reminder of this afternoon's meeting to discuss Zainab Usman's *Economic
Diversification in Nigeria*, available in OA
<https://carnegieendowment.org/2022/06/30/economic-diversification-in-nigeria-politics-of-building-post-oil-economy-pub-87370>.
If you're struggling for time, please read "Chapter 7 Lagos: The Political
Foundations of Economic Diversification in Nigeria’s Commercial Capital."

And use this Zoom link :
https://wits-za.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpdu2srTMpGdF9wKL9t_ucqsfeI9scy-DJ
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Keith Breckenridge  *W I S E R* - The Wits Institute for Social and
Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits,
 Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Phone +27(0)11-7174272 | Web:
wiser.wits.ac.za



On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 at 16:14, Keith Breckenridge <keith at breckenridge.org.za>
wrote:

> For the next meeting of the Polecon Seminar, Wednesday February 8, we will
> be reading:
>
> Zainab Usman's *Economic diversification in Nigeria: the politics of
> building a post-oil economy *(a great new study of the Lagos
> transformation, full of interesting lessons for South Africans).   The book
> is available in open access here
> <https://carnegieendowment.org/2022/06/30/economic-diversification-in-nigeria-politics-of-building-post-oil-economy-pub-87370>.
>
>
> For the following meeting, March 8, we will read
>
> Clara Mattei *The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and
> Paved the Way to Fascism, *(Chicago, 2022).  The book is available on
> Amazon and Libgen.
>
> The Public Economy Programme, based at the Southern Centre for Inequality
> Studies, will be hosting Mattei at Wits in the two weeks after March 10,
> and this seminar is prep for that visit.
>
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> Keith Breckenridge  *W I S E R* - The Wits Institute for Social and
> Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits,
>  Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Phone +27(0)11-7174272 | Web: wiser.wits.ac.za
>
>
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