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NOT A POUND OF FLESH

The quality of mercy should never be strained, and businesses need to balance ethics and profitability. 
 
Listener: 30 June, 2007. 
 
Keywords: Business & Finance; 
 
The cause of Folole Muliaga’s death after a contractor for Mercury Energy cut off the electricity supply to her household remains uncertain, but the tragedy reminds us that business operations can be damned heartless. [...]

30th June 2007 | Comments Closed

ACTING UP: Two into one won’t go.

Listener: 16 June, 2007 
 
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; 
 
When the Reserve Bank Act was passed in 1989, there were those who warned that it would not work. To be sure, the principle of making the bank responsible for operating monetary policy while the government of the day set the policy objective is a good one. The interference [...]

16th June 2007 | Comments Closed

SERIOUS CARGO

One small voyage for a ship, one giant leap for New Zealand. 
 
Listener: 2 June 2007. 
 
Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; Growth & Innovation; Political Economy & History; 
 
This month, 125 years ago in 1882, the Dunedin docked at the Port of London with a cargo of meat from New Zealand that sold at double its local price. Refrigeration [...]

2nd June 2007 | Comments Closed