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A journey through the ages

STUDENTS should learn more about economic history at school and university level, says Stellenbosch University economics professor Johan Fourie.

His newly released book Our Long Walk to takes the reader on a 100 000-year journey from the days when hunter-gatherer societies transformed into agrarian societies, introducing hierarchies and, later, class systems, to now.

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