The limitations of the Developmental State Paradigm were discussed in the introductory chapter to this volume. This chapter offers an alternative approach to the DSP through use of the notion of systems of (capital) accumulation and its specific application to South Africa’s evolving political economy, which we characterise as the ‘Minerals-Energy Complex’ (MEC) following Fine and Rustomjee (1996).

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Ashman, S., Fine, B., & Newman, S. (2013). Systems of Accumulation and the Evolving MEC. In Beyond the Developmental State: Industrial Policy into the 21st Century (IIPPE). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/40424