Report prepared for the New Zealand Law Commission. Filed 30 June, 2009. Executive Summary Keywords: Health; : Health;1. The Policy Framework It is assumed that any review of the Sale of Liquor Act 1989 will continue the policy framework on which it was based. Previously, the implicit assumption was that almost all alcohol consumption was…
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Report prepared for the New Zealand Law Commission. Filed 30 June, 2009. The Executive Summary was reproduced in the Law Commission’s report Alcohol in Our Lives, p.172-175. The full report Keywords: Health; Conclusions – on the whole, much alcohol consumption is benign or even socially beneficial, but some generates very great…
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Report prepared for Te Maru o Ngati Rangiwewehi (June 2009) Keywords: Environment & Resources; Maori; Introduction My name is Brian Henry Easton. I am an independent scholar with particular expertise in economics, social statistics and public policy analysis. I hold a D.Sc. from the University of Canterbury and am an adjunct professor at the Institute…
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Paper to the summit “Reviewing New Zealand’s Accident Compensation System” Wellington, 29 June, 2009. Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; Social Policy; The world is facing a global financial crisis with the international system malfunctioning, as many banks – which provide the means of payment and facilitate investment – having to limit their lending…
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Appendix to Forecasting New Zealand’s Net International Investment Position Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; I really wanted to project foreign liabilities relative to all assets. It is a different story if the liabilities rise more slowly than the assets or vice versa. Statistics New Zealand provides estimates of ‘Net Capital Stock’ which is the accumulated sum…
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This paper was prepared in January 2009 and revised in June 2009. Its purpose was to clarify some issues. Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; Overseas debt had a significant role in the Long Depression of the 1880s and 1890s and the Great Depression of the 1920s and 1930s. This suggests it would be helpful to be…
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When will the New Zealand recession end? Listener: 27 June, 2009. Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; If the international recession is going to go on for some time (Economy, June 13), what about New Zealand’s? The forecasters expect New Zealand production to hit its lowest point towards the end of this year. Subsequent…
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I was unable to address the housing paper in my end of my seminar commentary at the RBNZ Professorial Workshop on the Current Financial Crisis (17 June 2009). This covers some of the things I wanted to say. By way of background Luci Ellis, whose paper this note covers, is Head of Financial Stability at…
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Contribution to the concluding panel of the RBNZ Professorial Workshop on the Current Financial Crisis: Historical Perspectives and Implications for New Zealand. 17 June 2009. Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; I was recently involved in a non-government discussion about policy responses to the current recession which gave no attention to what was causing the…
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When will the global financial crisis be behind us? Listener: 13 June 2009. Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; Hucksters trying to sell you something will tell you the global financial crisis will soon be over. But what do we mean by “over”? If we mean it’s when the world economy reaches…
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