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THE CHALLENGE OF GLOBALISATION

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 implemented; curiously [...]

29th April 2010 | Comments Closed

THE NEW ZEALAND ECONOMY

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 lower end of [...]

27th April 2010 | Comments Closed

TAKING STOCK

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 but also deer [...]

17th April 2010 | Comments Closed

IF PIGS WOULD ONLY FLY

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 first phase, most [...]

3rd April 2010 | Comments Closed