<div dir="ltr"><div>A reminder of this week's Polecon meeting on Wednesday, Feb 8, at 16:00 on Usman's <i>Economic diversification in Nigeria</i>. The book is available <a href="https://carnegieendowment.org/2022/06/30/economic-diversification-in-nigeria-politics-of-building-post-oil-economy-pub-87370">here</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>This will be a Zoom meeting, and I'll send a link on the day. <br></div><div><br></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><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 at 16:14, 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>For the next meeting of the Polecon Seminar, Wednesday February 8, we will be reading: <br></div><div><br></div><div>Zainab 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 available in 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>For the following meeting, March 8, we will read <br></div><div><br></div><div style="text-align:left">Clara Mattei <i>The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism, </i>(Chicago, 2022). The book is available on Amazon and Libgen.</div><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:left"> The Public Economy Programme, based at <span>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.</span></div><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><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>
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