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I am currently a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg. I provide expert analysis and research on a range of issues relating to public finance, higher education, public policy, economic development and political economy.

From 2021 to 2023 I was a Senior Research Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study. In 2022 I was also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for the Advanced Study of the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh.

I have a very wide range of intellectual and academic interests – see my research page and sub-pages for some detail. My Google Scholar and ORCID pages tend to have my most recent academic publications.

One of my more important recent papers is on the credibility of economics:

My first book, The Incentivised University: Scientific Revolutions, Policies, Consequences published by Springer is now available online and many universities have access to the electronic version. The book is written to be accessible to a general audience but unfortunately is currently priced towards the academic market; I hope that will change at some point in the future. A recording of the virtual launch of the book is available here.

Previously I was a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Johannesburg, from August 2016 to July 2021. From July 2014 to July 2016 I worked as an economist in the South African Parliamentary Budget Office and continued my intellectual/academic work in my own time. Before that I was a lecturer and PhD candidate in the School of Economics at UCT and briefly a Senior Researcher at the Development Policy Research Unit. I received my PhD in Economics in 2014.