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prepared the first draft of this book as a visiting scholar at the Harvard Business School with access to the fabulous Baker Library and Harvard's other resources, supported by Canada's International Development Research Centre. Thanks to Marc van Ameringen and Rohinton Medhora of IDRC who arranged for the sponsorship and encouraged me to undertake and complete the project, and to Professor Richard Vietor at the HBS for accommodating me. Tom Karis, Dani Rodrik, and my wife Pippa Green read and commented on parts of the early draft of the manuscript, and Pippa on later versions too. Thanks also to Bill Freund who gave me valuable advice, both as a friend to whom I sent an early draft, and also as an anonymous reader for the publisher whose insights and prose style I could not mistake. Thanks to Eddie Webster for encouraging me to persist in trying to publish the manuscript. Thanks too to the other anonymous readers. The title of the book, Season of hope, was inspired by the use of the phrase by Trevor Manuel, Minister of Finance, in his budget speech in 2005, though the phrase can be traced back at least as far as Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities.I presented early versions of Chapters Two and Three respectively at the Walter Rodney Seminar at Boston University at the invitation of Dianna Wylie, and at the World Bank at an informal seminar convened by Jeffrey Lewis and Ataman Aksoy. Thanks to Alec Erwin, then Minister of Trade and Industry, and Zav Rustomjee, then Director-General of the Department of Trade and Industry, for allowing me to take extended leave to prepare the initial draft. Thank you too to my current employers at The Presidency, especially Reverend Frank Chikane, Joel Netshitenzhe and Goolam Aboobaker for allowing me to update and publish what is not an authorised account, and is my sole responsibility. And thank you to my other colleagues in the DTI, The Presidency, TIPS (Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies) and elsewhere for their contributions to my knowledge and understanding. This book is dedicated to Herbert and Shirley Hirsch who taught me to think critically about the way we live and the way we could live.
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