Societies with great inequality are more prone to poor health, social hostility and crime. Listener: 29 August, 2009. Keywords: Distributional Economics; History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy; When I was working on the problems of inequality and poverty in the 1970s, my colleagues joked I was a social economist, even if they spent more time…
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Unfortunately, there’s no magic bus to accelerate us to Australian levels of income. Listener: 15 August, 2009. Keywords: Growth & Innovation; Sometime in the 1960s, New Zealand economic growth went through a “climacteric”, a point when the growth rate started slowing down. Think of it like driving your car up a hill. Once it starts…
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Political Review July /August 1996. An earlier version was published as ‘Of Dogma and Dealers’. Electronic Journal of Organisational Theory
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It is sometimes hard to recognise the New Zealand which the enthusiasts for the recent reforms portray.