Brian Easton

Listener: 24 August, 1996. (Published as Editorial)

Keywords: Governance;

The New Zealand public has just lost $328.4 million because of bad Treasury advice on the 1987 sale of New Zealand Steel to Equiticorp. The public lost that money because, during the sale process, the deal between the Crown and Equiticorp broke company law – section 62 of the Companies Act makes it illegal for a company to buy its own shares.

Revised version of the Lecture to the 1996 Auckland University Winter Lecture Series, Still Fretful Sleepers: the Intellectual in New Zealand. 20 August, 1996.

Keywords: Political Economy & History;

Still fretful sleepers?(1) Has not New Zealand changed since Bill Pearson finished his “Sketch of New Zealand Behaviour and its Implication for the Artist” with that resounding call for the need to awaken New Zealanders from their fretful sleep?(2)

Political Review July/August 1996., p.24-29. Also published in a symposium on The New Zealand Experiment: A World Model for Structural Adjustment by Jane Kelsey , published in the Electronic Journal of Radical Organization Theory (EJROT), (http://www.mngt.waikato.ac.nz/leader/journal/ejrot.htm).

Keywords: Business & Finance;

It is sometimes hard to recognize the New Zealand which the enthusiasts for the recent economic reforms described by Kelsey portray.

Listener 10 August, 1996.

Keywords Distributional Economics; Social Policy

Various government imposed contributory superannuation schemes will be offered to the electorate this year by the political parties. …