We are paying a very high price for failing to regulate properly. Listener: 20 February, 2010. Keywords: Regulation & Taxation; The global financial crisis is estimated to have cost the US Government US$90 billion, or about 0.6% of its annual output. The equivalent cost in New Zealand would be NZ$1.1 billion. But take a look…
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Asia-Pacific Economics and Business History Conference, 17-19 February 2010. Keywords: Political Economy & History; Introduction I originally said I would recycle the paper It’s the Same this Time? which I gave in November 2008 shortly after it became evident to everyone that the world economy was about to enter a severe recession – if it…
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Policy Quarterly, Vol 6, No 2, May 2010., based on a paper presented to a seminar on 16 February, 2010. Keywords: Regulation & Taxation; I begin this paper with a manufacturer’s warning: that I use the term ‘regulation’ slightly differently from the way it is used in some other papers presented in this symposium, coming…
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From the section ‘The Economy and the City’ released February 2010. Keywords: Distributional Economics Te Ara is New Zealand’s On-line Encyclopaedia. The primary author of its section on the Income and Wealth Distributions ( www.teara.govt.nz/en/income-and-wealth-distribution ) was Brian Easton. For other of his contributions The Economy: www.teara.govt.nz/en/economy New Zealand’s economic history: www.teara.govt.nz/en/economic-history
From the section ‘The Economy and the City’ released February 2010. Keywords: Political Economy & History; Te Ara is New Zealand’s On-line Encyclopaedia. The primary author of its section on New Zealand’s economic history ( http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/economic-history ) was Brian Easton. < For other of his contributions The Economy: http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/economy Income and Wealth Distributions: http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/income-and-wealth-distribution
Our economy is suffering from some severe imbalances that are hindering an upswing. Listener: 6 February, 2010. Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; The so-called recovery of the New Zealand economy could turn out to be L-shaped. Under this scenario, after the economy reaches the bottom of the contraction, it doesn’t move into an upswing, either rapidly…
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