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THE MEASURE OF MILTON

Milton Friedman (1912-2006) contributed to economic analysis but was also an important economic philosopher.

 Listener: 24 February, 2007.
 
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money;
 
When Friedman visited New Zealand in 1981 he was interviewed for the Listener. Told that money supply (in this case Reserve Bank-issued currency plus trading bank lending, what economists call “M1”) had increased by 164.5 [...]

24th February 2007 | Comments Closed

THE RELEVANCE OF COMMERCIALISM TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

Paper for “Corporate Governance in the Public Sector 2007 Conference”, Wednesday 19 February, Wellington. [1]
 
Keywords: Governance;
 
By the 1980s the traditional regulation of New Zealand’s private and public sectors had become increasingly obsolete. The story of the shift to ‘more-market’ and the privatisation of some of the public sector is well known. But a set of [...]

19th February 2007 | Comments Closed

A NEW ZEALAND PERSPECTIVE

Contribution to a Panel on ‘The Big Questions and Research Challenges in the economic history of Australia and New Zealand?’ AEHB Conference, Sydney, 14 February, 2007.
 
Keywords: Political Economy & History;
 
I have been asked to offer a New Zealand perspective on some of the big questions facing New Zealand economic history. My responses are [...]

14th February 2007 | Comments Closed

EXCEPTIONALISM:

A RESEARCH CHALLENGE IN THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND: Paper to a workshop at the 2007 EHSANZ Conference, Sydney, 14 February 2007.[1]
Keywords:  Political Economy & History;
Exceptionalism is the notion that one nation’s story differs qualitatively from others, because of its unique origins, national credo, historical evolution, distinctive political and religious institutions, or [...]

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A NEW ECONOMIC HISTORY OF NEW ZEALAND: SOME ISSUES

The author has been awarded a 2007 Claude McCarthy Fellowship to develop a new economic history of New Zealand. This paper raises some issues.
 
Keywords: Political Economy & History;
 
General Histories of New Zealand
 
New Zealand general histories tend to ignore the economy and its implications for the evolution of New Zealand. One example will illustrate the point.
 
Keith [...]

12th February 2007 | Comments Closed

RESEARCH AND DESTROY

Studies of race relations are sometimes used to bolster prejudice, not reveal the truth. 
 
Listener: 10 February, 2007.  
 
Keywords: Health; Maori; Social Policy; 
 
Don Brash’s January 2004 Orewa speech may have been a key event in New Zealand race relations. The earlier foreshore and seabed decisions had stirred a restlessness about Maori claims as well as a [...]

10th February 2007 | Comments Closed

BORDER MANAGEMENT IN THE PACIFIC REGION

Comments on a paper  by Michael Moriarty.
New Zealand-Pasifika: Interactions and Perspectives Conference, 8 February, 2007.
 
Keywords: Globalisation & Trade;
 
Thankyou Michael for a thought-provoking paper.
 
Let me introduce your subject by saying a little more about the theory of borders. We need to distinguish jurisdictional borders from geographical borders.
 
Jurisdictional borders tend to be unstable – from, say, a [...]

8th February 2007 | Comments Closed