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TRADING PLACES

Economic geography is all location, location, location 
Listener: 29 November, 2008 
Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; 
When I was awarded a Marsden Grant to study globalisation in 2004, I was pretty clear about the -subject’s economics. As the costs of distance (such as transport costs) fell, the opportunities and benefits from trade rose, and that would transform society. 
You will [...]

29th November 2008 | Comments Closed

‘It’s The Same This Time?’

Cycles and Depressions in New Zealand History

This is a revised version of a paper given to IPS seminar, 22 November 2008. It is similar to the article published in Policy Quarterly, Volume 3, No 1, February 2009, pp.17-23.

Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; Political Economy & History;

Introduction

It is said that [...]

22nd November 2008 | Comments Closed

SWING LOW

Is the global “millennium recession” arriving too late?
Listener: 15 November, 2008.

Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money;

The world “millennium recession” I wrote about in 2002 never eventuated. So what happened to it?
The short answer is that the Bush administration increased the US Government deficit by spending more (especially on warfare) and cutting taxes (so Americans had more money [...]

15th November 2008 | Comments Closed

RESPONDING TO A SEVERE RECESSION

Notes for an IPS Seminar 6 November, 2008.
 
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; Social Policy;
 
This One Will Be Different
 
New Zealand is going into what seems likely to be a long recession. We dont know how long nor how deep, nor the precise events that will drive it. There is not space to review this proposition, but [...]

6th November 2008 | Comments Closed

FUTURE SHOCK

Hard times are ahead – and they won’t be over soon. 
Listener: 1 November, 2008. 
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; 
The financial boom is over, as is its artificial stimulus of the world economy. Its excesses are unwinding in a broadly predictable manner. I can’t tell you the exact timing, nor the details. but we have many more phases [...]

1st November 2008 | Comments Closed