Hands Together

This entry was posted in Growth & Innovation, Listener on 27th February 1999 by Brian Easton.

How to Get Manufacturing and the Rest of the Tradeable Sector to Grow
Listener 27 February, 1999

Keywords: Growth & Innovation;

“Deindustrialization” describes the process whereby the manufacturing sector grows more slowly than the rest of the economy. Almost all rich OECD countries have experienced deindustrialization in the last three decades. Including New Zealand, whose manufacturing sector’s contribution to production decreased from 24 percent of GDP in 1974 to 18 percent in 1993. (The employment share fell from 27 percent of the labour force in the 1960s to 17 percent in 1993. The sharper employment fall, here and in rest of the OECD, reflects the faster rise in manufacturing productivity.)

His Purpose Is Clear: Reflecting a Life Of Thought and Experience

This entry was posted in History of Ideas, Methodology, Philosophy, Listener, Political Economy & History on 13th February 1999 by Brian Easton.

Listener: 13 February 1999.

Keywords: Political Economy & History;

It was perhaps inevitable that Bruce Jesson, growing up in the Canterbury of the 1950s with a freezing worker father, would study Marx. Christchurch is often said to be our most class conscious city. Actually, all our big cities have acute class differences. In Wellington it matters whether you are a political insider or an outsider; in Auckland the measure is money. Because Christchurch does not have the politics or the easy money, its differences are more evidently social status.