Francis Wilson (economist)

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Francis Wilson (* 1939 in Livingstone , Northern Rhodesia ) is a retired professor of economics who taught at the University of Cape Town for over 40 years .

Life

Wilson studied physics at the University of Cape Town and then went to the University of Cambridge in England to study economics . In addition to his long teaching activities in Cape Town, he spent time studying in Lyon (as a worker in a truck factory), at Balliol College in Cambridge, in New Delhi , at Harvard University in the USA , again in Cambridge at All Souls College and at Princeton University in New Jersey , USA.

In 1975 Wilson founded the Southern Africa Labor and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) at the University of Cape Town , which he headed until 2000. One of his employees was Mamphela Ramphele . With Ramphele he wrote two books that were based on data obtained from the Second Carnegie Study on Poverty and Development in South Africa in the 1980s, which he led.

In 2000, Wilson founded Data First in Cape Town , a basic resource for information research and academic education at the Center for Social Science Research . He was the council chairman of Fort Hare University in Alice , Eastern Cape Province and chairman of the National Water Advisory Council .

Since his retirement he has devoted himself to writing and has focused his attention on how employment can be developed in the new South Africa without harming the environment.

Honourings and prices

Publications

  • Labor in the South African Gold Mines 1911-1969 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1969, ISBN 0-521-08303-6 .
  • South Africa: The Cordoned Heart. Gallery Press, Cape Town 1986, ISBN 0-620-09125-8 .
  • with Mamphela Ramphele: Children on the Frontline. SALDRU, Cape Town 1987.
  • with Mamphela Ramphele: Uprooting Poverty: The South African Challenge. SALDRU, Cape Town 1989.
  • as editor, with others: Poverty Reduction. What Role for the State in Todays Globalized Economy. Zed Books, London 2001, ISBN 1-85649-953-7 .
  • Dinosaurs, Diamonds and Democracy. A Short, Short history of South Africa. Umuzi-Random House-Struik, Cape Town 2010, ISBN 978-1-4152-0140-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry at beta.worldcat.org (English), accessed on January 6, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Wilson, Francis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Livingstone (Zambia)