David Fryer
Senior Lecturer, Rhodes University
D.Fryer@ru.ac.za
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
Gilad Isaacs
Researcher, CSID, University of Witwatersrand
gilad.isaacs@gmail.com
Research interests: Financialisation, Financialisation in Emerging Capitalist Economies, History of financial relations, Corporate financing and investment, Financial governance and regulation, South African macroeconomic management
Area interests: South Africa, Emerging Markets
About: Gilad Isaacs is currently completing a PhD in economics at SOAS, University of London and working as a researcher at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Education: MSc Economics (SOAS, University of London), MA Political Economy (New York University), BA Philosophy and Social Anthropology (University of Cape Town)
Work experience: Researcher at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. Political organising in South Africa focused on HIV/AIDS with the Treatment Action Campaign and access to basic services with the Social Justice Coalition. Political organising on Israel/Palestine in South Africa and the United States. Undergraduate teaching. Research.
Selected publication:
Isaacs, G., 2011. Contemporary Financialization: A Marxian Analysis.Journal of Political Inquiry, 4.
Isaacs, G., 2014. The Myth of “Neutrality” and the Rhetoric of “Stability”: Macroeconomic Policy in Democratic South Africa. PERSA Working Paper No. 1.