A tribute to Wolfgang Rosenberg (1914-2007) – scholar, public intellectual and gentleman. Listener: 21 April, 2007. Keywords: History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy; There were many tributes to Wolf Rosenberg when he died recently at 92. As well as his considerable achievements as a teacher, writer and activist, people recalled his commitment…
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Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; I was asked to provide the New Zealand equivalent in the graph showing US housing prices relative to consumer prices in Real Estate Roller Coaster . The longest housing price series I could find starts at the end of 1979 and finishes in late 2006. I wont go into detail but…
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Maori incomes are catching up, but there’s a long way to go. Listener: 7 April, 2007. Keywords: Distributional Economics; Maori; Sometimes I am proud of New Zealand’s achievements in race relations. Not that they are perfect; far from it. But we try, we acknowledge our past failures (sometimes reluctantly) and we can…
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The Hollow Men: A Study in the Politics of Deception: Nicky Hager (Craig Potton 2006) 351pp, $35.00. An earlier version of this review was submitted to a history journal and rejected because ‘the points you’re making about history writing are so well known to our readers that they don’t need to be said in…
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