Johan Fourie

  Professor

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Phone: +27 (0)21 808 3590

Room 618
Schumann building
Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602

Education:

orcid.org/0000-0002-7341-017X

Courses lectured:

Books:

• Quantitative History and Uncharted People (Bloomsbury, 2023) (edited)
• Skatryk (Tafelberg, 2023)
• Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
• Life Under Lockdown: An Anthology of Stellenbosch student Covid-19 diary entries (African Sun Media, 2022) (co-edited with Laura Richardson)
• Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom (Tafelberg, 2021)

Forthcoming research:

• Fourie, J. Opportunities and challenges in African economic history. Chapter in: The State of Economic History: A Global Perspective. (ed: C. Diebolt and M. Haupert.)
• Fourie, J, Ross, R., Walters, L. The Economic Sovereignty of Burgher Elites in the Eighteenth-Century Cape Colony.
• De Swardt, Fourie and Von Fintel, D. The persistence of immigrant advantage.
• Fourie, J., Schoots, J. and Walters, L. When protest movements fail: the economic causes and consequences of settler rebellion in the Cape of Good Hope, 1770-1780.
• Fourie, J. and Norling, J. Household spending in the United States during the 1918 influenza pandemic. Working paper.
• Fourie, J. and Norling, J. Women Working During and After the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in the United States. Working paper.

Published research:

• Maravall, L., Baten, J. and Fourie, J. 2023. Leader selection and why it matters: Education and the endogeneity of favouritism in 11 African countries. Review of Development Economics.
• Fourie, J. and Greyling, J., 2023. Wheat productivity in the Cape Colony in 1825: evidence from newly transcribed tax censuses. Agrekon, pp.1-18.

• Martins, I., Cilliers, J. and Fourie, J., 2022. Legacies of loss: The health outcomes of slaveholder compensation in the British Cape Colony. Explorations in Economic History, p.101506.
• Fourie, J. and Garmon Jr, F., 2022. The settlers’ fortunes: Comparing tax censuses in the Cape Colony and early American republic. The Economic History Review.
• Fourie, J., Inwood, K. and Mariotti, M., 2022. Living standards in settler South Africa, 1865–1920. Economics & Human Biology, 47, p.101158.
• Marco-Gracia, F. and Fourie, J. 2022. The missing boys: A distorted sex ratio in South Africa, 1894–2011. Economic History of Developing Regions. 37 (2), 128-146
• Marco-Gracia, F.J. and Fourie, J., 2022. The crossover point: Measuring the age at which women outnumber men in South Africa, 1904-2011. Southern African Journal of Demography, 22(1).
• Fourie, J. and Santana-Gallego, M., 2022. Mega-sport events and inbound tourism: New data, methods and evidence. Tourism Management Perspectives, 43, p.101002.
• Santana-Gallego, M. and Fourie, J., 2022. Tourism falls apart: How insecurity affects African tourism. Tourism Economics, 28(4), pp.995-1008.
• Rommelspacher, A. and Fourie, J. 2021. The Anglican marriage records of Cape Town: 1865-1960. New Contree.
• Maphosa, L., Ehlers, A., Fourie, J. and Kerby, E. 2021. The growth and diversity of the Cape private capital market, 1892–1902. Economic History of Developing Regions. 36(2), pp.149-174.

• Feingold, E., Fourie, J. and Gardner, L. 2021. A tale of paper and gold: The material history of money in South Africa. Economic History of Developing Regions. 36(2) Open Access.
• De Kadt, D., Fourie, J., Greyling, J., Murard, E. and Norling, J. 2021. The consequences of the 1918 Spanish flu in South Africa. South African Journal of Economics.
• Jayes, J. and Fourie, J. 2021. Health inequality and the 1918 Spanish influenza in South Africa. World Development.
• Ekama, K., Fourie, J., Heese, H. and Martin, L. 2021. When Cape Slavery Ended: Introducing a New Slave Emancipation Dataset. Explorations in Economic History. 

• Santana-Gallego, M. and Fourie, J. 2021. Tourism falls apart: How insecurity affects African tourism. Tourism Economics. 
• Fourie, J., Inwood, K. and Mariotti, M. 2020. Military technology and sample selection bias. Social Science History. 44:3, 485-500.
• Gwaindepi, A. and Fourie, J. 2020. Public sector growth in the British Cape Colony: Evidence from new data on expenditure and foreign debt, 1830-1910. South African Journal of Economics.88(3): 341-367.
• Nyika, F. and Fourie, J. 2020. Black Disenfranchisement in the Cape Colony, c.1887–1909: Challenging the Numbers. Journal of Southern African Studies. 46:3, 455-469.

• Links, C., Fourie, J. and Green, E. 2020. The substitutability of slaves: Evidence from the Eastern frontier of the Cape Colony. Economic History of Developing Regions. 35(2): 98-122.

• Bijsterbosch, D. and Fourie, J. 2020. Coffee, slavery and a tax loophole: Explaining the Cape Colony’s trading boom, 1834–1841. South African Historical Journal. 72(1): 125-147.
• Boshoff, W. and Fourie, J. 2020. The South African Economy in the Twentieth Century.In: Business Cycles and Structural Change in South Africa (Editor: Boshoff, W.) Springer, pp. 49-70.
• Rijpma, A., Cilliers, J. and Fourie, J. 2020. Record linkage in the Cape of Good Hope Panel. Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History. 53(2), pp. 112-129.
• Fourie, J., Rosselló-Nadal, J. and Santana-Gallego, M. 2020. Fatal Attraction: How Security Threats Hurt Tourism. Journal of Travel Research. 59(2): 209-219.
• Von Fintel, D. and Fourie, J. 2019. The great divergence in South Africa: Population and wealth dynamics over two centuries. Journal of Comparative Economics. 47, 759-773. [View article]
• Fourie, J. and Inwood, K. 2019. Interracial marriages in twentieth-century Cape Town: evidence from Anglican marriage records. The History of the Family. 24:3, 629-652.
• Fourie, J. 2019. Who Writes African Economic History? Economic History of Developing Regions, 34:2, 111-131.
• Fourie, J. and Obikili, N. 2019. Decolonizing with Data: The Cliometric Turn in African Economic History. In: Diebolt, C. and Haupert, M. (eds.), Handbook of Cliometrics. Springer Nature.
• Cilliers, J., Fourie, J. and Swanepoel, C. 2019. 'Unobtrusively into the ranks of colonial society': Intergenerational wealth mobility in the Cape Colony over the eighteenth century. Economic History of Developing Regions, 34:1, 48-71.
• Fourie, J. 2018. Cliometrics in South Africa. Studies in Economics and Econometrics. 42,2: 1-13.
• Swanepoel, C. and Fourie, J. 2018. Why local context matters: Property rights and debt trading in colonial South Africa. Studies in Economics and Econometrics. 42,2: 35-60.
• Fourie, J. and Green, E. 2018. Building the Cape of Good Hope Panel. The History of the Family 23.3: 493-502.
• Fourie, J. and Green, E. 2018. Wage Labour and Slavery on the Cape Frontier: The Impact of the Abolition of Slave Imports on Labour Relations in the Graaff-Reinet District. In: Colonialism, Institutional Change, and Shifts in Global Labour Relations. Eds: Hofmeester, K. and De Zwart, P. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 265-291.
• Vink, N. Willem H. Boshoff, Johan Fourie and Rossouw van Jaarsveld. 2018. Wine Cycles in South Africa. Journal of Wine Economics 13,2: 182-198.
• Vink, N., Boshoff, W., Williams, G., Fourie, J. and McLean, L. 2018. South Africa. In: Wine Globalization: A New Comparative History. Eds: Anderson, K. and Pinilla, V. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 384-409.
• Mpeta, B., Fourie, J. and Inwood, K. 2018. Black living standards in South Africa before democracy: New evidence from heights. South African Journal of Science. 114.1-2: 1-8.
• Cilliers, J., and Fourie, J. 2018. Occupational Mobility during South Africa's Industrial Take‐Off. South African Journal of Economics. 86(1): 3-22.

• Herranz-Loncan, A. and Fourie, J. 2018. "For the public benefit?" Railways in the British Cape Colony. European Review of Economic History. 22(1): 73-100.
• Swanepoel, C. and Fourie, J. 2018. ‘Impending ruin’ or ‘remarkable wealth’? The role of private credit markets in the eighteenth-century Cape Colony. Journal of Southern African Studies. 44(1): 7-25.
• Fourie, J. 2017. 'Subverting the Standard View of the Cape Economy: Robert Ross's Cliometric Contribution and the Work it Inspired.' Pesa, I. and Gewald, J-B. (eds). Magnifying Perspectives: Contributions to History, A festschrift for Robert Ross. ASC Occasional Publication 26. African Studies Centre: 261-273.
• Fourie, J., Grundlingh, A. and Mariotti, M. 2017. 'Poor South Africa! Will no nice English people ever come out here?' – The South African Constabulary of the Anglo-Boer War. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 45(4): 580-606.
• Stephens, D. and Fourie, J. 2017. The morphological evolution of Springbok rugby players over the twentieth century and the implications for racial transformation in South African rugby. South African Journal of Research in Sport, Recreation and Physical Education. 39(3): 145-161.
• Fourie, J. and Santana-Gallego, M. 2017. The Invisible Hand of Thierry Henry: How World Cup Qualification Influences Host Country Tourist Arrivals. Journal of Sport Economics. 18(7): 750-766.
• Boshoff, W. and Fourie, J. 2017. When did South African markets integrate into the global economy? Studies in Economics and Econometrics. 41(1), 19-32.
• Fourie, J. 2017. The long walk to economic freedom after apartheid, and the road ahead. Journal of Contemporary History. 42(1), 59-80.
• Du Plessis, S. and Fourie, J. 2016. “ʼn Droewige laslap op die voos kombers van onreg”: ʼn Statistiese analise van konsentrasiekampbewoners. Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, 56, 4-2: 1178-1199.
• Fourie, J. 2016. The data revolution in African economic history. Journal of Interdisciplinary History. XLVII:2 (Autumn, 2016), 193–212.
• Calitz, E. and Fourie, J. 2016. The Historically High Cost of Tertiary Education in South Africa. Politikon,43 (1), 149-154.
• Fourie, J., Roselló, J and Santana-Gallego, M. 2016. Which God is Good for Tourism? Tourism Economics, 22 (1), 163-169.
  
• Fourie, J. and Swanepoel, C. 2015. When selection trumps persistence: The lasting effect of missionary education in South Africa. Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis. Vol 12(1): 1-29.
• Fourie, J. and Green, E. 2015. The Missing People: Accounting for the productivity of indigenous populations in Cape Colonial History. Journal of African History. Vol 56(2): 195-215.
  

• Fourie, J., Roselló, J and Santana-Gallego, M. 2015. Religion, Religious Diversity and Tourism. Kyklos. Vol 68(1): 51-64. Online.

• Baten, J. and Fourie, J. 2015. Numeracy of Africans, Asians, and Europeans during the Early Modern Period: New Evidence from Cape Colony Court Registers. Economic History Review. 68(2): 632-656.
• Mariotti, M. and Fourie, J. 2014. The economics of apartheid: An introduction. Economic History of Developing Regions. Vol 29(2): 113-125. Full text.
• Fourie, J. and Gardner, L. 2014. The Internationalization of Economic History: A puzzle. Economic History of Developing Regions. Vol 29(1): 1-14.
• Fourie, J. 2014. The Quantitative Cape: A Review of the New Historiography of the Dutch Cape Colony. South African Historical Journal. Vol 66(1): 142-168.
• Fourie, J. and Von Fintel, D. 2014. Settler skills and colonial development: the Huguenot wine-makers in eighteenth-century Dutch South Africa. Economic History Review. Vol 67(4): 932–963.
  

• Cilliers, J. and Fourie, J. 2014. Die Huwelikspatrone van Europese setlaars aan die Kaap, 1652-1910. New Contree. Vol 69: 45-70.

• Fourie, J., Ross, R. and Viljoen, R. 2014. Literacy at South African mission stations. Journal of Southern African Studies. 40(4): 781-800.
• Patrizio, P., Muller, S., Cilliers, J. and Fourie, J. 2014. The transmission of longevity across generations: the case of the settler Cape Colony. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. Vol 35: 105–119.
• Fourie, J., Jansen, A. and Siebrits, K. 2013. Public finances and private company rule: The Dutch Cape Colony (1652-1795). New Contree. December 2013.
• Fourie, J. and Van Zanden, J.-L. 2013. GDP in the Dutch Cape Colony: the national accounts of a slave-based society. South African Journal of Economics. Vol 81(4): 467-490.
  
• Fourie, J. and Santana-Gallego, M. 2013. Ethnic reunion and cultural affinity. Tourism Management. Vol 36, 411-420.
• Fourie, J. and Santana-Gallego, M. 2013. The determinants of African tourism. Development Southern Africa. 30(3): 347-366.
  
• Fourie, J. 2013. Slaves as capital investment in the Dutch Cape Colony, 1652-1795. Chapter in: Svensson, P. & Hillbom, E. (Eds.) Agricultural transformation in global history perspective. Routledge.
• Fourie, J. 2013. The remarkable wealth of the Dutch Cape Colony: measurements from eighteenth-century probate inventories. The Economic History Review. 66(2): 419-448.
• Cilliers, J. and Fourie, J. 2012. New estimates of settler life span and other demographic estimates from South Africa, 1652-1948. Econonomic History of Developing Regions. Vol 27(2): 61-86. Available here.
• Fourie, J. and Schirmer, S. 2012. The Future of South African Economic History. Economic History of Developing Regions. Vol 27(1): 114-124. Working Paper.
• Fourie, J. 2012. Die relatiewe welvaart van die vroeë Kaapse setlaars. Litnet Akademies 9(2): 442-467. Available here.
• Fourie, J. and Uys, J. 2012. Luxury product consumption in eighteenth-century Cape Colony households. Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis 9(2): 29-60.
• Du Toit, L. and Fourie, J. 2012. Africa’s comparative advantage in tourism. Studies in Economics and Econometrics. Vol. 36(1): 1-22.
• Fourie, J. and Von Fintel, D. 2012. "The Fruit of the Vine: An augmented endowments-inequality hypothesis and the Rise of an Elite in the Cape Colony" in Amsden, A., Robinson, J. and DiCaprio, A. The Role of Elites in Development. WIDER series on Economic Development. Oxford University Press. Working Paper version.
• Fourie, J. and Von Fintel, D. 2011. 'n Ongelyke Oes. Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe. Vol. 51(3): 332-353.
• Fourie, J. 2011. Travel service exports as comparative advantage in South Africa. South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences. Vol 14(2): 210-228. Full article available here.
• Fourie, J., Siebrits, K. and Spronk, K. 2011. Tourist displacement in two South African sport mega-events. Development Southern Africa. Vol 28(3): 319-332.
• Fourie, J. and Santana-Gallego, M. 2011. The impact of mega-events on tourist arrivals. Tourism Management. Vol 32(6): 1364-1370. Working Paper.
• Fourie, J. and Von Fintel, J. 2011. A History with Evidence: Income inequality in Dutch South Africa. Economic History of Developing Regions 26(1): 16-48. Working Paper.
• Fourie, J. and Spronk, K. 2011. South African mega-sports events and their impact on tourism. Journal of Sport & Tourism 16(1), 75-97.
• Du Plessis, E. and Fourie, J. 2011. Higher education exports in South Africa: A case study of Stellenbosch University. South African Journal of Higher Education 24(3). 
• Schirmer, S., L. Chaudhary, M. Cosgel, J-L. Demonsant, J. Fourie, E. Frankema, G. Garzarelli, J. Luiz, M. Mariotti, G. Verhoef, S. Yan. 2010. The State and Scope of the Economic History of Developing Regions. Economic History of Developing Regions 25(1): 3-20. Working paper. Full paper.
• Boshoff, W. and Fourie, J. 2010. The significance of the Cape trade route to economic activity in the Cape Colony: a Medium-term business cycle analysis. European Review of Economic History 14(3): 469-503 Print Version
• Fourie, J. and Santana-Gallego, M. "Measuring the gains from currency union membership in Southern Africa" tralac Yearbook 2010. tralac: Stellenbosch Working Paper version
• Calitz, E. and Fourie, J. 2010. "Infrastructure in South Africa: who is to finance and who is to pay?" Development Southern Africa 27(2): 177-191. Paper available here. Working paper version.
• Fourie, J. and Von Fintel, D. 2010. "The dynamics of inequality in a newly settled, pre-industrial society" Cliometrica 4(3): 229-267. Online edition.
• Siebrits, K. and Fourie, J. 2009. "An application of attractiveness measures to evaluate the structure of the Currie Cup" South African Journal for Research in Sport, Physical Education and Recreation. Working paper version
• Fourie, J. 2008. “A note on infrastructure quality in South Africa”. Development Southern Africa. Vol. 25: 4, October. Working paper version
• Boshoff, W. and Fourie, J. 2008. “Explaining the Fluctuations in Shipping Traffic to the Cape Settlement, 1652-1793”. South African Journal of Economic History. Vol. 23: (1,2), pp. 1-27.
• Fourie, J. 2007. “The South African poor white problem in the early twentieth century: Lessons for poverty today”. Management Decision. Vol. 45: 8, pp. 1270-1296. Working paper version
• Fourie, J. 2006. “Economic Infrastructure in South Africa: Definitions, Theory and Empirics”. South African Journal of Economics: Vol. 74: 3, pp. 422-441.

Data

• Opgaafrolle (tax censuses)