Writings to the end of March 2009 Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; The following is a summary of my writing on the Global Financial Crisis beginning in August 2007, when it became evident that the world financial system (and probably the world economy) was going to face great stress. I compiled it to enable me to…
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This letter is discussed in What Happened in July 1984: and the Aftermath: (OCR of Original) Keywords: Political Economy & History; DAVID SHEPPARD’S LETTER OF JULY 13, 1984. DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS 13 June, 1984 The Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Muldoon Minister of Finance, Parliament Buildings, Wellington Dear Sir…
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A memoir as explained below. Keywords: Political Economy & History; The 2006 biography, Roderick Deane: His Life and Times by Michael and Judith Bassett twice mentioned me. On both occasions the statements were wrong on matters of fact. Had anyone believed the claims they would have thought ill of me. While the facts related to…
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Keywords: History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy; In his blog of 26 March 2009, Paul Krugman pointed out that Anton Kaletsky was wrong when he claimed that John Maynard Keynes did not have an economic model when he wrote his General Theory. (Kaletsky is not always right when he criticises economists he disagrees with.)…
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Listener: 21 March, 2009. Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; Until recently, government revenue was in the happy position of being a little more than government expenses. But, unfortunately, the forecast is ominous. The Treasury is picking that government expenses will continue growing after 2008, broadly following the trend of the past few years,…
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NZ Institute of International Affairs: Wairarapa 18 March, 2009, Masterton (revised). A slightly shorter version was presented to the Wellington WEA on the 23 March. Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; The International Financial Crisis By way of context the world economy faces the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression in the early 1930s…
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Paper for the 6th Annual Policy Evolution Conference; 16 March, 2009, Wellington (Revised) Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; Regulation & Taxation; The International Financial Crisis I have but a short time for my presentation, so I am going to focus on a single facet of the macroeconomics of social policy, the coming fiscal crisis. By way…
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Listener: 7 March, 2009. Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; We face two conflicting messages over how to behave in current economic circumstances. One is that we should continue to consume and invest. If we don’t, spending and in production will fall, workers will be laid off, investment will taper off, the economy will contract,…
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Statement of Evidence of Brian Henry Easton in an Appeal Under The Resource Management Act 1991 between Margaret and Stephen Thompson Marlborough District Council (Env-2006-WLG-000038) Keywords: Environment & Resources; Regulation & Taxation; Introduction I. My name is Brian Henry Easton. I am an independent scholar with particular expertise in economics, social statistics…
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