Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom (2nd Edition)

Why do the Japanese play rugby? How did Einstein help create Eskom? Who is the richest man in history? And what do an Indonesian volcano, Frankenstein and Shaka Zulu have in common?

These are some of the questions Johan Fourie explores in this fully revised and expanded second edition of his bestseller Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom - an entertaining, accessible economic history spanning everything from the human migration out of Africa 100 000 years ago to the present. This enriching journey through an African-centred history reveals the roots and reasons for prosperity.

Why does one group flourish, but another continues to struggle? Do we have better lives than our ancestors? Fourie shows in his unique and engaging style why the builders of societies - rather than the burglars - ultimately win.


'This is the first book to bring Africa in from the margins and place it centrally into the big narratives of world economic history. The subject will never be the same again.' - James Robinson, University of Chicago and 2024 Nobel laureate

'Johan Fourie's commitment to understanding the historical roots of prosperity and ensuring its wide distribution in the future makes this one of the most humane economic histories I have read.' - Anne McCants, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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