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Professor Philip Black is a leading economist in South Africa and world wide. He is Visiting Professor in the Department of Economics, University of Stellenbosch. He was previously the Jagger Professor of Economics and Director of the School of Economics, University of Cape Town; and prior to that, Professor of Economics at the University of Stellenbosch and Professor and Head of the Department of Economics and Economic History at Rhodes University.
Prof. Black is also Advisor to the South Africa Foundation, whose membership includes the top 100 business captains of South Africa.
He is Managing Editor of the South African Journal of Economics, and editorial advisor to Studies in Economics and Econometrics and the South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences. He is president of the Economic Society of South Africa and also served on the Economic Advisory Council of the State President and on the Committee for Economic Sciences of the Human Sciences Research Council.
| Professor Black has published widely in both local and international academic journals and is co-author of four recent books on the South African economy, i.e. Public Economics for South African Students (Oxford University Press, 1999); Economics: Principles and Practice, 2nd ed. (Pitman International, 1997); Leading Issues in South African Microeconomics (Southern - MacMillan, 1992) and Leading Issues in South African Macroeconomics (Southern - MacMillan, 1990).. |