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Book Reviews

NSI research fellows with some frequency write reviews of the books they are reading, with in-depth analyses of the topics covered and discussing their influence on the institute's programmes.

In the balance: The case for a Universal Basic Income in South Africa and beyond
Hein Marais
Wits University Press. 2022.
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
Deirdre Mask
St. Martin's Press, 2020
Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free and a Sane Economy
Philippe Van Parijs, Yannick Vanderborght
Harvard University Press. 2017
Empires and Bureaucracy in World History: From Late Antiquity to the Twentieth Century
Peter Crooks, Timothy H. Parsons
Cambridge University Press, 2016
Poor Numbers: How we are misled by African development statistics and what to do about it
Morten Jerven
Cornell University Press, 2013
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: and other arguments for economic independence
Kristen R. Ghodsee
Bold Type Books, 2018

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