Presentation to Auckland Regional Council: 29 October. 2008. Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; Governance; Growth & Innovation; Aucklanders sometimes talk about wanting to have a ‘world class city’. Since any city can be world class in its class, that is not a very ambitious goal. The issue is in which class does Auckland want to be?…
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Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; Growth & Innovation; 1. Macroeconomic Issues 1.1 The International Financial Crisis is leading to a world economic recession. Nobody knows how deep or long it will be. It is bound to impact on New Zealand and will take up a lot policy time in the near future. 1.2…
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Choosing the vanilla type of financial institution has its advantages. Listener: 18 October, 2008 Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; The more speculative end of the financial system is a casino, according to economist John Maynard Keynes. You gamble with your money: if you’re lucky you win more; if not you eventually lose it. The plain vanilla…
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The case involved a number of parents of disabled adult children who claimed that the Ministry of Health discriminated against them, by not paying them for services for which it would pay outside carer. For more detail see http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/?p=1396 . My role was a very small one dealing with the costs. Keywords: Health; Social Policy;…
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Contribution to a panel which is a part of the launch of the Australia-New Zealand Connections Research Centre (ANZRC), University of Canterbury, Christchurch, Friday 10 October 2008. Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; Labour Studies; Political Economy & History; The Trans-Tasman labour market is over two hundred years old – perhaps since the first convict…
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The 2008 Michael King Memorial Lecture, University of Otago, 9 October 2008. [1] Keywords: Maori; Political Economy & History; Michael King and I were students together. It would not be true to say we were close friends afterwards – for we lived in different parts of New Zealand and worked in different areas….
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There’s no quick fix for our differences with Australia. Listener: 4 October, 2008. Keywords: Growth & Innovation; The way we discuss our -relationship with the Australian economy might be a good indication of the shallowness of economic debate in New Zealand. It’s true that on many measures – most notably per…
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