UCT Economics Society
About the UCT Economics Society
The UCT Economics Society, based in the School of Economics, at the University of Cape Town, serves as a central hub for news about economics events and webinars at UCT or in South Africa, and occasionally from further afield. Please click on the logos above to access our communication channels. Occasional news from the field is also shared on social media.
Subscribing to the WhatsApp announcement group is a convenient way to receive notifications for upcoming events. Only the admins send messages, which happens about once every few weeks. Join our Telegram channel, which has a linked chat group for banter, jokes, economics help with Q&A, etc., from across all years, but in the Slack Workspace, you'll find dedicated channels for each year and course. Try out economics.stackexchange.com for your economics questions, and show off your reputation there with us in our Telegram group!
Follow us on Twitter, or on Facebook. Subscribe to our mailing list on Vula.
Monday 1pm School of Economics webinars: https://sites.google.com/view/uct-economics
Check out this guide for studying UCT economics courses! This guide is also helpful for any economics postgraduate student in an economics department.
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Calendar
Subscribe to the calendar with the iCal address ( https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/13skvrp00irdl41q1rlaae0bqo%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics ). You can add a new calendar "From URL" in the Google Calendar web app, or by clicking on the blue "+" button on the bottom-right of the calendar web page.
Quarterly video meetings, hosted ourselves
First Thursday of March, June, September and December, at 6pm–7pm
If you have a topic in mind and would like to lead one of our quarterly video meetings, please contact Aidan at hello@aidanhorn.co.za
To join, please DM your Google Workspace email address to Aidan at https://wa.me/27609159535 , along with your first name and surname. He can add you to the calendar event.
Date (Leader): Topic
7 March 2024, 6pm: (Name): Topic
6 June 2024, 6pm:
5 Sept 2024, 6pm:
5 Dec 2024, 6pm:
Our Google Calendar Team
These are the people responsible for populating the various elements of our Google Calendar:
Gabriel Vieira and Aidan Horn: Overall events managers, including adding our own UCT Economics-Society-branded events.
Hisseine Tadjadine: Monthly StatsSA Consumer Price Index (CPI) data publications (latest month; advance schedule). Aidan Horn's scraping and tidying script.
Xalati: DPRU (website, Facebook) seminars and SALDRU seminars, and other events. Also responsible for re-tweeting these events.
Abigail Smith: Quarterly GDP releases (latest quarter; advance schedule), quarterly QLFS releases (latest quarter; advance schedule), and ICTS's scheduled maintenance slots.