Monthly Archives: August 1997

THE COMMERCIALISATION OF SIN AND REAL ECONOMIC ETHICS

Presentation in series “Creation of a New Ethic” St Andrews on the Terrace, Sunday August 24, 1997.   Keywords: History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy;   Exactly at the time I was invited to contribute to this series, I was pondering over the notion of the “commercialisation of sin”. The title parallels that of a…
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The Sweet Hereafter: Will You Be Better off Under RSS?

Listener 9 August 1997

Keywords: Social Policy;

In this column I assume that the government’s proposed Retirement Savings Scheme (RSS) works the way the government says it will. In which case the RSS is a privatization of the current New Zealand Superannuation (NZS), where instead of the government taking responsibility for the funding, the private sector does, albeit under considerable government regulation.