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The Political Economy of South Africa Revisited: Tracking and Debating the Minerals-Energy and Financial Complex: Critical Reconstructions of Politica

The Political Economy of South Africa Revisited: Tracking and Debating the Minerals-Energy and Financial Complex: Critical Reconstructions of Politica

Fine, Ben

Hardcover

EconomicsGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 9004748326
ISBN13: 9789004748323
Publisher: Brill
Published: Dec 10 2025
Pages: 342
Weight: 1.46
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
South Africa's political economy is commonly understood as a Minerals-Energy (and Financial) Complex, ME(F)C. But the MEC has been misunderstood. Specifying the MEFC as a system of accumulation and drawing upon extensive research and engaging in critical debates, the originator of the term, traces the MEFC from apartheid origins, through the ANC's failure to adopt coherent and coordinated policies, ultimately leading to degeneration into state capture and beyond. Emphasis is placed upon the interaction between South African specificities and globalisation, neoliberalisation and financialisation, anchoring economic and social reproduction in five lows across investment, productivity, wages, employment and social provision.

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