Presentation to an EPMU seminar, 29 April, 2010 Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; Labour Studies; Twenty years ago the Engineering Union commissioned me to think about the alternative to Rogernomics. According to the last prime minister, Helen Clark, my report Open Growth was influential on the last Labour Government’s economic strategy, although it was not totally…
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This was an entry for a venture which did not proceed. (April 2010) Keywords: Political Economy & History; Introduction While New Zealand has about 0.1% of the world’s population, its economy produces about 0.3% of the world’s material output. Based on this material output (GDP per capita) the OECD places it in the middle to…
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Commissioned Report: April 2010 Keywords: Health; Regulation & Taxation; Social Policy; Executive Summary The following is not the usual executive summary. Rather it draws out the policy implications of the known costs and benefits of gambling, thereby summarising the main report, which consists of two parts. Appendix I is a general account about how economists…
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Why more townies should spend an occasional day on a farm. Listener: 17 April, 2010. Keywords: Business & Finance; Occasionally a townie should go to a field day on farming, as I did recently at Glenside Station, near Gladstone in the Wairarapa. Covering 1125ha and carrying about 10,000 stock units – mainly sheep and beef…
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It may be all Greek to some, but New Zealand risks getting caught in the storm. Listener: 3 April, 2010. Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; It’s possible – although not certain – there will be a second phase of the global financial crisis, involving sovereign nations rather than financial institutions. To protect their citizens from the…
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