Charles Simkins is vice-president and professor of economics at St. Augustine College in Johannesburg, South Africa. Before that, he held the Helen Suzman Chair in Political Economy at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
Despite improvements in South Africa’s socioeconomic landscape and the expansion of the black middle class since the end of apartheid, the country’s levels of poverty and inequality remain high and heavily correlated with race.
This book addresses such broad issues as whether democracy promotes inequality, the socioeconomic factors that drive democratic failure, and the basic choices that societies must make as they decide how to deal with inequality.
