Contents List of Figures and Tables 1 Locating the Minerals-Energy Complex 1 Introduction 2 The Post-Apartheid Conundrum 3 Whither or Wither the MEC? 4 Brief Overview2 Total Factor Productivity vs. Realism: the South African Coal Mining Industry Postscript as Personal Preamble 1 Introduction 2 Measuring Total Factor Productivity 3 The Measurement of Output 4 Competition in the Markets for Coal 5 The Supply Side 6 Coal and the State 7 The Labour Market 8 Concluding Remarks3 "The Rise in African Wages: 1975-1985" - a Dissenting and Wide-Ranging Commentary Postscript as Personal Preamble 1 Introduction 2 The Orthodoxy We Inherit 3 Modelling Labour Markets? 4 Does Segmented Labour Market Theory Offer an Alternative? 5 Towards an Alternative 6 Concluding Remarks Appendix4 Debating the South African Minerals-Energy Complex Postscript as Personal Preamble 1 Introduction 2 The MEC Core 3 On Import-Substituting Industrialisation 4 The MEC as a System of Accumulation 5 Future Prospects Appendix5 Engaging the MEC: or a Lot of My Views on a Lot of Things Postscript as Personal Preamble 1 Introduction 2 The History of the 'MEC' 3 The Reception of the MEC 4 Post-Apartheid Economy 5 From History of "MEC" to History of MEC 6 Concluding Remarks Appendix6 Political Economy for the Rainbow Nation: Dividing the Spectrum? Postscript as Personal Preamble 1 Introduction 2 Identifying Identity 3 Is Neoliberalism Dead (Was It Ever Alive) - Long Live Neoliberalism? 4 From Neoliberalism to the MEC 5 Neoliberalism Changes Gear?7 Amnesty International?: the Nature, Scale and Impact of Capital Flight from South Africa Postscript as Personal Preamble 1 Introduction 2 Capital Flight and the Political Economy of South Africa 3 Capital Flight and Economic Development 4 Calculations for Capital Flight from South Africa 5 Capital Controls, Wealth Repatriation and the Prevailing Policy Framework 6 Conclusions Appendix 1 Appendix 28 Neoliberalism, Varieties of Capitalism, and the Shifting Contours of South Africa's Financial System Postscript as Personal Preamble 1 Introduction 2 Varieties of Capitalism 3 From EMH to IEMH 4 From IEMH to Financialisation 5 From Apartheid to Post-Apartheid Economy and Financial System 6 The 1980s Onwards: Deregulation, Internationalisation and Renewed Concentration 7 Conclusions9 The Meaning of Marikana Postscript as Personal Preamble 1 Some Underlying Determinants 2 The Present Crisis10 Across Developmental State and Social Compacting: the Peculiar Case of South Africa Postscript as Personal Preamble 1 Introduction 2 The Developmental State Paradigm 3 The DSP in the Age of Financialisation 4 From Developmental State to Social Compacting 5 South African DSP and SCP: 'Twixt a Rock and a Hard Place? 6 Concluding Remarks11 Vishnu Padayachee as Engaged Political Economist, a Personal Journey Postscript as Personal Preamble 1 Introduction 2 Neoliberalism Is as Neoliberalism Does 3 From Mainstream to . 4 . Heterodoxy 5 The Post-Apartheid Context 6 Post-Apartheid Economics: from Unravelling to Disempowered 7 Locating Vishnu References Index.