<div dir="ltr"><div>Compliments on the new year, all.</div><div><br></div><div>Just a reminder, for those with the time and inclination, of the zoom discussion tomorrow at 16:00 SA time of Bruce Carruthers' Economy of Promises. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Here's the zoom link <a href="https://wits-za.zoom.us/j/96414438335?pwd=L3FKaUVCZG1Da0hzWlc1Q3ZDa2Y1Zz09">https://wits-za.zoom.us/j/96414438335?pwd=L3FKaUVCZG1Da0hzWlc1Q3ZDa2Y1Zz09</a> <br></div><div><br></div><div>k<br></div><div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left">-------<br>Keith Breckenridge <b><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">W I S E R</span></b><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"> - The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 |<font size="2"> Phone +27(0)11-7174272 | </font></span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Web</span>: <font size="2"><a href="http://wiser.wits.ac.za" target="_blank">wiser.wits.ac.za </a><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 22 Dec 2022 at 11:55, Keith Breckenridge <<a href="mailto:keith@breckenridge.org.za">keith@breckenridge.org.za</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hoping the holiday is peaceful and restorative. <br></div><div><br></div><div>The first Polecon meeting next year will be on Wednesday, January 11, at 16:00, reading Bruce Carruthers' <i>The Economy of Promises: Trust, Power, and Credit in America</i>. This is a book that's been cooking for a long time. Carruthers' earlier book, City of Capital, is a deeply interesting study of the politics of the English financial revolution. The book is available on Amazon and on Libgen.rs. <br></div><div><br></div><div>For our second meeting, in February, we'll read Usman's <i>Economic diversification in Nigeria: the politics of building a post-oil economy </i>(a great new study of the Lagos transformation, full of interesting lessons for South Africans). The book is open access <a href="https://carnegieendowment.org/2022/06/30/economic-diversification-in-nigeria-politics-of-building-post-oil-economy-pub-87370" target="_blank">here</a>. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Take care. <br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left">-------<br>Keith Breckenridge <b><span style="color:rgb(153,0,0)">W I S E R</span></b><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"> - The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 |<font size="2"> Phone +27(0)11-7174272 | </font></span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Web</span>: <font size="2"><a href="http://wiser.wits.ac.za" target="_blank">wiser.wits.ac.za </a><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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