About: David Fryer is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Economics and Economic History at Rhodes University.

Research Interests: Political economy of labour; macroeconomics; social democracy and Marxism; food regimes; economic methodology; ideology; the BRICS.

Education: MSc (Natal)

Work Experience: Hobart Houghton Research Fellow and Senior Lecture at the Department of Economics and Economic History at Rhodes University

Selected Publications:

Fryer, D. 2013. Contextualising ınformality in the South African labour market: indicators of the limits to evidence-based research? LMIP working paper 7, Labour Market Intelligence Partnership, HSRC, Pretoria

Smith, D. and Fryer, D. 2012. The new frontier in risk assessment: estimation of corporate credit rating quality in emerging markets. African Review of Economics and Finance 4(1): 89-109.

Fryer, D and Hepburn, B. 2010.  It’s jobs, stupid! Social exclusion, education, and the informal sector in Grahamstown, Fort Beaufort and Duncan Village.  Institute of Social and Economic Research, Working Paper Series 5, Grahamstown.

Website: https://rhodes-za.academia.edu/DavidFryer