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Helen Clark and Michael Cullen have overseen a return to orthodox economic management.�
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Listener: 30 December, 2006.�
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Keywords: Political Economy & History;�
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Asked to comment on Helen Clark�s performance, Roger Kerr said the Prime Minister had presided �over the continuation of the economic directions that the country moved towards in the 1980s � She was among the critics [...]

LAND OF GIANTS

New Zealand�s nationbuilders aren�t just figures from the distant past.�
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Listener: 16 December, 2006.�
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Keywords: Political Economy & History;�
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Many myths portray one�s ancestors as giants, titans beside whom their descendants, including the myth-tellers, are tiny. Did I fall into that trap in my book The Nationbuilders, about New Zealanders who shaped modern New Zealand from 1932 to [...]

ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF ALCOHOL-RELATED PROBLEMS

� Paper for the conference �Alcohol: Evidence-based Impacts and Interventions�, sponsored by the Center for Alcohol Studies, of the Health System Research Institute and the Department of Mental Health, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand, held 13 -14 December, 2006 in Bangkok.
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Keywords: Health;
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This paper is dedicated, with affection and respect, to the Canadian epidemiologist and public [...]

The Price of Privatisation

Are public-private partnerships the next problem?
Listener: 2 December, 2006.
Keywords:��Business & Finance
At the launch of Treasury veteran Richard Shallcrass�s memoir Family Silver, David Caygill, who had been one of Shallcrass�s Finance Ministers, rejected the suggestion in David Lange�s autobiography that there might have been corruption in the privatising of state assets. Shallcrass, who was involved in [...]

USING LISTENER ECONOMICS COLUMNS FOR TEACHING

Paper to an AUT conference for Secondary School Economics Teachers, 24 November, 2006. (Revised)
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Keywords: History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy;
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I dedicate this lecture to Jack Shallcrass. Some 45 years ago he gave a lecture at Curious Cove on �The Right to Dissent� which has stayed with me over all the years, except perhaps it [...]

MIGRATION AND POPULATION AGING: THE GLOBAL CHALLENGE

Paper to Labour Employment and Work Conference 12, Wednesday 15 November.�
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Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; Labour Studies;�
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Aging is a global phenomenon, that is it exists in may parts of the globe. This paper argues it is also a globalisation phenomenon, that is it involves the increasing interaction between national and regional economies My Marsden funded [...]

SOUND INVESTMENT

On Friday, November 17, 2006 the NZSO celebrates Shostakovich�s 100th anniversary in the Wellington Town Hall. Who cares?�
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Listener: 18 November, 2006.�
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I love a live symphony orchestra: the electricity of the concert hall sound; my eye identifying key instruments for my untutored ear; those inelegant sawings, bangings and puffings (harpists aside) that come together in a [...]

THE UNI SPLIT

Letter to an expatriate: 2031
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Listener: 4 November, 2006
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Keywords: Education;

Dear Gerry,

You�ve asked me what�s happened to New Zealand universities since we graduated all those years ago in 2006. Actually, the critical issue was finally identified that [...]

SOME THOUGHTS ON COMPANY TAX

As a consequence of some discussions on corporate tax policy, I wrote this paper to sort out my ideas. As I state, I am not a tax specialist. Indeed it turns out what I thought was a profound discovery � that New Zealand�s corporate tax on undistributed earnings is a sort of capital gains [...]

CHANGING EXPECTATIONS

MMP has reduced policy extremism, but more consensus politics are needed to solve our big economic questions
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Listener: 21 October, 2006.
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Keywords: Environment & Resources; Governance;�

The rise in personality politics is an unexpected consequence of MMP. Certainly there are other factors, including a change in the US political debate (recall the attacks on the Clintons) and the [...]

Brian Easton