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INDIAN TRAVELOGUE

This is just some notes. The point of the trip was to study India and write five �Listener� columns. They are drafted and will be published from January to May 2011.
Keywords: Political Economy & History;
Saturday 6 – Monday 8: Flew into Chennai (Madras) from Singapore. You cant fly direct from New Zealand, bother it. [...]

FLATTER AND FLATTER

With the economy more sluggish than predicted, could we be in a long recession?
Listener: 30 October, 2010.
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money;
That another long recession started in 2007 can’t be ruled out. In more than a third of the past 150 years, our economy – measured as gross domestic product per person – has been flat or [...]

A FEUDAL FUTURE?

The country is weighed down by a mountain of foreign debt and ownership.
Listener: 16 October, 2010.
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money;
In the decade to March 2009, about $340 billion was invested in New Zealand. Of that, about $205 billion was spent on replacing old assets, leaving $135 billion for new ones. Whether this was sufficient for our [...]

NOTES FOR A PANEL DISCUSSION ON FAIR TRADE

Annual Conference of the Fair Trade Movement; 9 October 2010.
Keywords: Globalisation & Trade;
Economists have spent over two hundred years thinking about how markets work. They have concluded they are not fair but in general they are effective. You get a sense of this by looking at the growth of the world economy over the last [...]

THINKING ABOUT CHINA (INDEX)

This series of �Listener� columns were an occasional series that arose out of a trip funded by the 2009 NZIER-NBR Economist of the Year Award.
Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; Political Economy & History;
Engaging China: http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/?p=1220 (26 June 2010)
Will China Rule the World? http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/?p=1247 (24 July, 2010)
China or Bust: http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/?p=1257 (7 August, 2010)
The Bottom Line: http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/?p=1321 (4 [...]

RICEONOMICS

Lessons in how to use an economic surplus.
Listener: 2 October, 2010.
Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; Political Economy & History;
More than one tourist has asked how much it cost to build Beijing’s Forbidden City, a complex of 980 surviving buildings covering three-quarters of a hectare. Better to ignore the monetary cost and think about the resources for [...]

Brian Easton