When the economy is dire, first Budgets can be good, bad or an ugly shade of black. Listener: 30 May, 2009. Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; Political Economy & History; : Macroeconomics & Money; Political Economy & History; The first Budget of a new government is a defining moment. The Key Government’s is on Thursday, May 28….
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Come Budget day, expect some wailing and gnashing of teeth. Listener: 16 May, 2009. Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; We are in the recessionary equivalent of a phoney war. The economy is certainly in a recession – it began in early 2008 and is already one of our longest postwar ones. We may…
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The Waikato Management School annually awards a prize in memory of Brendan Thompson to the to student in the international economics course. By coincidence I was in Hamilton for the 2009 School of Management Prize giving on 5 May, and again was asked to give the prize awarded in his memory ( 2008 speech.) …
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Café Scientifique; University of Waikato, May 5, 2009 Keywords: History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy; I was asked to talk about my time as a science student at school. I shall do a little of that, and also at university, but do so in order to provide a foundation for a discussion on…
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Presentation to begin a discussion on the Global financial Crisis; to the ‘God Talk’ series at the the Cathedral Church of St Peters, Hamilton Cathedral, May 3, 2009. Keywords: History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy; Macroeconomics & Money; I thought context for this evening’s discussion would be a biblical text – verses 6 to 10…
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Would you rather be comforted or told the truth? Listener: 2 May, 2009. Keywords: History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy; Macroeconomics & Money; Political Economy & History; April 26 is the centenary of the birth of the great 20th-century newspaper columnist William Connor, who wrote under the byline Cassandra. The allusion is to…
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