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Enriching economics in South Africa: interdisciplinary collaboration and the value of quantitative – qualitative exchanges

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Since the transition to democracy in the early 1990s, economic research and instruction in South Africa have become far more quantitative and technically sophisticated. In this paper, I trace and discuss reasons for these developments, and I argue that this quantification of economics should not be at the expense of exchanges with qualitative data that fail the criterion of being representative, or with other disciplines that are less quantitative. With South Africa’s complex history, persistent inequality and considerable cultural diversity, economics has much to gain from interdisciplinary collaboration and mixed methods research.

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  • Dorrit Posel, 2017. "Enriching economics in South Africa: interdisciplinary collaboration and the value of quantitative – qualitative exchanges," Journal of Economic Methodology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(2), pages 119-133, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jecmet:v:24:y:2017:i:2:p:119-133
    DOI: 10.1080/1350178X.2017.1309746
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    1. Dorrit Posel, 2021. "Intra-Household and Inter-Personal Comparisons of Subjective Well-Being: Dorrit Posel," Applied Research in Quality of Life, Springer;International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, vol. 16(6), pages 2527-2529, December.

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