Machiavelli’s The Prince has risen to become one of history’s most controversial books. Its contents are, no doubt, seen as immoral to our modern sensibilities,…
The collected academic works of Nicholas Woode-Smith
Month: March 2018
Modern industry and commerce rely on energy to function. In South Africa, this energy sector was dominated, throughout the period of 1948 to 1994, by…
Politics and the social fabric of society are very much interlinked with economics. In the words of Lenin, states and other key economic players want…
The African National Congress’s (ANC) rise to power in 1994 saw a monumental increase in efforts to combat poverty and inequality. Their election campaign had…
Apartheid’s planning and social engineering stratified the majority of the South African population, disallowing them opportunities and the means to uplift themselves from the poverty…
Economies and agrarian systems evolve due to a myriad of factors. Gender relations are often a product of economic systems and a contributing factor themselves.…
Africa’s relative lack of development has been cause for much debate over the historical factors that have led to their economic status. This essay will…
Historically, famine was thought to be a disaster of nature, damaging human creation. All we could do was weather the storm. Famine was seen as…
From the period of 1842 to 1943, Shanghai possessed a worrying lack of sovereignty due to the fragmentation of its political power.[1] Bickers (2012) argued…
Often, the phenomenon of famine is treated as a problem of food production.[1] The Bengali famine of the 1940s saw three million dead, as natural…