<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear friends,</div><div><br></div><div>I'm very happy to say that the special issue on African capitalism that had its beginnings at the first meeting of this collaboration in May 2014, has finally seen the light of day in <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/50/1">Economy & Society, 50: 1</a>.  (This may be the longest gestating special issue in world history.)   Thanks to everyone who worked on this, especially the many whose excellent papers didn't make it into the final issue.  <br></div><div><br></div><div>Economy and Society, Volume 50, Issue 1 (2021) :</div><div><br></div><div>Recentring the margins: Theorizing African capitalism after 50 years</div><div><div class="gmail-tocListDropZone1"><div class="gmail-widget gmail-general-html gmail-none gmail-widget-none gmail-widget-compact-all" id="gmail-4bf3d01c-2461-4732-a621-1320394e3cc1"><div class="gmail-wrapped">
<div class="gmail-widget-body gmail-body gmail-body-none gmail-body-compact-all"><div class="gmail-tocContent"><h1></h1><div class="gmail-articleEntry"><div class="gmail-tocArticleEntry gmail-include-metrics-panel gmail-toc-article-tools"><div class="gmail-item-checkbox-container"><label tabindex="0" class="gmail-checkbox--primary"><span class="gmail-box-btn"></span></label></div><div class="gmail-art_title gmail-linkable"><a class="gmail-ref gmail-nowrap" href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03085147.2021.1854540"><span class="gmail-hlFld-Title">Recentring the margins: Theorizing African capitalism after 50 years</span></a></div><div class="gmail-art_title gmail-linkable"><div class="gmail-tocAuthors gmail-afterTitle"><div class="gmail-articleEntryAuthor gmail-all"><span class="gmail-articleEntryAuthorsLinks"><span>Keith Breckenridge</span> & <span>Deborah James</span></span></div></div></div><div class="gmail-art_title gmail-linkable"><br></div><div class="gmail-articleEntryAuthor gmail-all"><a class="gmail-ref gmail-nowrap" href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03085147.2021.1841928"><span class="gmail-hlFld-Title">What happened to the theory of African capitalism?</span></a><span class="gmail-articleEntryAuthorsLinks"><span> Keith Breckenridge</span></span></div></div></div><div class="gmail-articleEntry"><div class="gmail-tocArticleEntry gmail-include-metrics-panel gmail-toc-article-tools"><div class="gmail-art_title gmail-linkable"><br></div><div class="gmail-articleEntryAuthor gmail-all"><a class="gmail-ref gmail-nowrap" href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03085147.2021.1841930"><span class="gmail-hlFld-Title">Life and debt: A view from the south</span></a><span class="gmail-articleEntryAuthorsLinks"><span> by Deborah James</span></span></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail-articleEntry"><div class="gmail-tocArticleEntry gmail-include-metrics-panel gmail-toc-article-tools"><div class="gmail-articleEntryAuthor gmail-all"><a class="gmail-ref gmail-nowrap" href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03085147.2021.1841931"><span class="gmail-hlFld-Title">The (anti) politics of central banking: Monetary policy, class conflict and the limits of sovereignty in South Africa</span></a><span class="gmail-articleEntryAuthorsLinks"><span> Jason Hickel</span></span></div><div class="gmail-articleEntryAuthor gmail-all"><div class="gmail-tocEPubDate"><span class="gmail-maintextleft"><strong></strong></span><br></div><a class="gmail-ref gmail-nowrap" href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03085147.2021.1841933"><span class="gmail-hlFld-Title">Does economics have an ‘Africa problem’?</span></a><span class="gmail-articleEntryAuthorsLinks"><span> by Grieve Chelwa</span></span></div></div></div><div class="gmail-articleEntry"><div class="gmail-tocArticleEntry gmail-include-metrics-panel gmail-toc-article-tools"><div class="gmail-article-type"><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail-articleEntry"><div class="gmail-tocArticleEntry gmail-include-metrics-panel gmail-toc-article-tools"><div class="gmail-articleEntryAuthor gmail-all"><a class="gmail-ref gmail-nowrap" href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03085147.2021.1841934"><span class="gmail-hlFld-Title">The emergence of regulatory capitalism in Africa</span></a><span class="gmail-articleEntryAuthorsLinks"><span>  by Jonathan Klaaren</span></span></div></div></div><div class="gmail-articleEntry"><div class="gmail-tocArticleEntry gmail-include-metrics-panel gmail-toc-article-tools"><div class="gmail-item-checkbox-container"><label tabindex="0" class="gmail-checkbox--primary"><span class="gmail-box-btn"></span></label></div><div class="gmail-article-type"><br></div><div class="gmail-art_title gmail-linkable"><a class="gmail-ref gmail-nowrap" href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03085147.2021.1841937"><span class="gmail-hlFld-Title">Institutionalizing neoclassical economics in Africa: Instruments, ideology and implications</span></a></div><div class="gmail-tocentryright"><div class="gmail-tocAuthors gmail-afterTitle"><div class="gmail-articleEntryAuthor gmail-all"><span class="gmail-articleEntryAuthorsLinks"><span>by Howard Stein</span></span></div></div></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></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></d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