William Hutt and the economics of apartheid

The work of William Hutt is well known in the fields of labor economics, monetary economics and political economy. A hundred years after his birth it is appropriate to take note of a less well known work of his, The Economics of the Color Bar. This book, first published in 1964, is an in-depth examination of the origins and implications of apartheid in South Africa his adopted country of residence for 38 years of his life. It can be read today not only as an authoritative and illuminating political and social history of South Africa from its first colonization until the time of writing, but also as a window into the origins of South Africa's current dilemmas. © 2000 Kluwer Academic Publishers.