Nicoli Nattrass

Research & Publications

Articles in Refereed Journals

• Nattrass, N., “Street Trading in Transkei: A Struggle against Poverty, Persecution and Prosecution”, in World Development, vol.15, no.7, July 1987.
• Nattrass, N., “Post-war Profitability in South Africa: A Critique of Regulation Analysis in South Africa”, in Transformation, no.9, 1989.
• Nattrass, N. and J. Nattrass, “South Africa, the Homelands and Rural Development”, in Development Southern Africa, vol.7, 1990.
• Nattrass, N., “Controversies about Capitalism and Apartheid in South Africa: An Economic Perspective”, in Journal of Southern African Studies, vol.17, no.4, December 1991.
• Nattrass, N., “Balancing Urban and Rural Needs in South Africa: Some Policy Issues”, in South Africa International, vol.21, no.3, 1991.
• Nattrass, N., “Profitability: The Soft Underbelly of South African Regulation Analysis”, in Review of Radical Political Economics, vol.24, no.1, 1992.
• Nattrass, N., “Of Holy Cows and Functionalist Fallacies: A Critique of Wright et. al.’s ‘Reconstructing Marxism’” in South African Sociological Review, vol.5, no.2, 1993.
• Nattrass, N., “South Africa: The Economic Restructuring Agenda. A Critique of the MERG Report”, in Third World Quarterly, vol.15, no.2, 1994.
• Nattrass, N., “Politics and Economics in ANC Economic Policy", in African Affairs, vol.93, 1994.
• Nattrass, N., “Economic Restructuring in South Africa: The Debate Continues”, Journal of Southern African Studies, vol.20, no.4, December, 1994.
• Nattrass, N., “The Crisis in South African Gold Mining”, in World Development, vol.23, no.5, May 1995.
• Nattrass, N., “Gambling on Investment: Competing Economic Strategies in South Africa”, in Transformation, December 1996.
• Nattrass, N., “Collective Action Problems and the Role of South African Business in National and Regional Accords”, in South African Journal of Business Management, vol.28, no.3, 1997.
• Nattrass, N. and J. Seekings, “Citizenship and Welfare in South Africa: Deracialisation and Inequality in a Labour-Surplus Economy”,  Canadian Journal of African Studies, vo1. 31, no.3, 1997.
• Nattrass, N.,  “From Fragmentation to Fragile Unity: Organisational Fault-lines in South African Business”, in South African Journal of Business Management, vol.29, no.1, 1998.
• Nattrass, N. “Globalisation and the South African Labour Market”, in Studies in Economics and Econometrics , vol.22, no.3. 1998.
• Nattrass, N., “The Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Business and Apartheid:  A Critical Evaluation”, in African Affairs, July 1999.
• Nattrass, N. 1999. Globalisation and Social Accords: A Comparative Analysis of Sweden, Australia and South Africa, in Labour, Capital and Society, vol.32, no.2: 159-178.
• Nattrass, N. 2000. Inequality, Unemployment and Wage-setting Institutions in South Africa, in Studies in Economics and Econometrics, vol.24, no.3: 129-142.
• Nattrass, N. 2000.  The debate about Unemployment in the 1990s in Studies in Economics and Econometrics, Vol.24, no.3: 73-90. 
• Nattrass, N. 2000. Wage-setting strategies and Minimum Wages in Decentralised Regions: the Case of the Clothing Industry in Phuthaditjhaba, South Africa in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol.24, no.4.
• Nattrass, N. and J. Seekings.  2001. A Divided Nation: Distribution in Post-Apartheid South Africa, in Daedalus, vol. 130, no.1: 45-70.  
• Nattrass, N. 2001. High Productivity Now: A Critique of South Africas Growth Strategy,  in Transformation, no.45
• Nattrass, N. and J. Seekings.  2001. Democracy and Distribution in Highly Unequal Economies:  The Case of South Africa in Journal of Modern African Studies, vol.39, no.3: 470-498.
• Skordis, J. and N. Nattrass. 2002.  Paying to Waste Lives: The Cost-Effectiveness of Reducing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, in Journal of Health Economics, vol.21 (5): 405-421.
• Walker, R. and N. Nattrass. 2002. A Critical Analysis of the Jubilee 2000 (SA) call for Cancelling South African Government Debt, in Development Southern Africa, vol.19, no.4:  467-481.
• Nattrass, N. 2002. AIDS and Human Security in South Africa, in Social Dynamics, vol.28, no.1: 1-19.
• Nattrass, N. 2002. Should Youth Unemployment be Targeted as Part of a Comprehensive Welfare Policy in South Africa?, in Social Dynamics, vol.28, no.2: 207-236.
• Nattrass, N. and J. Seekings.  2003. Class, Distribution and Redistribution in Post-Apartheid South Africa, in Transformation, no.50. 
• Nattrass, N.  2003. AIDS, Economic Growth and Distribution in South Africa in South African Journal of Economics,  vol.71, no.3: 428-54
• Nattrass, N. 2004. Unemployment and AIDS: The Social-Democratic Challenge for South Africa, in Development Southern Africa, vol.21, no.1, March: 87-108.
• Nattrass, N. and R. Walker. 2005. Unemployment and Reservation Wages in Working-Class Cape Town, South African Journal of Economics, September.
• Nattrass, N. and N. Geffen. 2005.  The Impact of Reduced Drug Prices on the Cost-Effectiveness of HAART in South Africa, in African Journal of AIDS Research, vol.4, no.1: 65-67.
• Nattrass, N. 2005.  Who consults Sangomas in Khayelitsha?: An Exploratory Quantitative Analysis in Social Dynamics, vol.31, no.2.
• Nattrass, N. 2005 The Quest for Healing in South Africas Age of AIDS in Social Dynamics, vol.31, no.2.
• Ashforth, A. and N. Nattrass. 2005. Ambiguities of Culture and the Antiretroviral Rollout in South Africa, in Social Dynamics, vol.31, no.2: 285-303.
• Nattrass N. 2006. Trading off Income and Health:  AIDS and the Disability Grant in South Africa, in the Journal of Social Policy, 35 (1), January: 3-19.
• Nattrass, N. 2006. What determines Cross-Country Access to Antiretroviral Treatment?, in Development Policy Review (May), vol.24, no.3: 321-337.
• Nattrass, N. 2006.  South Africas Rollout of Antiretroviral Treatment: A Critical Assessment, in Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, vol.43, no.5, December 15, 2006: 618-623.
• Magruder, J. and N. Nattrass. 2006. Exploring Attrition Bias: The Case of the Khayelitsha Panel Study (2000-2004), in South African Journal of Economics, vol.74 (4), December 2006: 769-781.

Books and Edited Collections

• Nattrass, N. and E. Ardington (eds.), The Political Economy of South Africa, Oxford University Press, Cape Town, 1990.
• Moll, P., Nattrass, N. and L. Loots (eds.), Redistribution: How Can it Work in South Africa?, David Philip, Cape Town, 1991.
• Nattrass, N., Profits and Wages: The South African Economic Challenge, Penguin Forum Series, Penguin Books South Africa, 1992.
• Nattrass, N., Macroeconomics: Theory and Policy in South Africa, David Philip, Cape Town, 1997.  (Second edition, 2000). 
• Nattrass, N. 2004 The Moral Economy of AIDS in South Africa, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (reprinted in 2006). 
• Seekings, J. and N. Nattrass.  2005. Class, Race and Inequality in South Africa, Yale University Press, New Haven.  
• Nattrass, N. 2007. Mortal Combat: AIDS Denialism and the Fight for Antiretrovirals in South Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.