What Results When a Poet Tackles Economics
Listener: 28 October, 1995.
Keywords: Literature and Culture;
It is hard to provide concrete images of the economy, as is evident from the boring covers on most economics books. The title and author may be in large letters, or perhaps there are graphs and diagrams, but a compelling image is rare.
Listener: 14 October, 1995.
Keywords: Business & Finance; Macroeconomics & Money;
Olly Newland’s Lost Property: The Crash of ’87 … and the aftershock is worth reading especially if you are thinking about investing in financial markets. It describes the founding and fall of his Landmark property corporation. The book cover describes the man as “one of the darlings of the New Zealand scene [in 1987] … wheeler dealer supreme. Banks almost (sic) queued at his door to lend him money; the media for his advice and comment. He had to field many requests to speak to investor groups.” Newland, would not be so immodest, but it is certainly true that there was a time when businessmen like him were flavour of the month.
Evidence to the Waitangi Tribunal Claims to the Eastern Bay of Plenty Region (WAI 146) October 1995.
Keywords: Maori; Political Economy & History;
1. Introduction
1.1 My name is Brian Henry Easton. My profession is an economist and social statistician. In my 30 odd professional years I have held positions at the University of Sussex, the University of Canterbury, the University of Melbourne, and the NZ. Institute of Economic Research (which at one stage I directed). I currently hold various academic positions at the University of Auckland, Massey University, Otago University, and the Research Project on Economic Planning. I have written and edited 27 books and monographs, and over 200 published articles on a wide variety of economic and social issues. (Some of my many relevant publications are mentioned in references in this submission.) Over the last nine years I have worked as an independent consultant, and appeared before the Tribunal on other occasions including WAI 26/150, 45, 153, and 413.
1.2 I have been asked by Counsel for the Ngati Awa to assist the Waitangi Tribunal by providing expert opinion on the economic and social impact on the Ngati Awa of the Raupatu (confiscation) of their lands.