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LESS EQUAL THAN OTHERS

Societies with great inequality are more prone to poor health, social hostility and crime.

Listener: 29 August, 2009.

Keywords: Distributional Economics; History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy;

When I was working on the problems of inequality and poverty in the 1970s, my colleagues joked I was a social economist, even if they spent more time in bars, [...]

29th August 2009 | Comments Closed

ANOTHER THINK COMING

Unfortunately, there’s no magic bus to accelerate us to Australian levels of income.
Listener: 15 August, 2009.
Keywords: Growth & Innovation;

Sometime in the 1960s, New Zealand economic growth went through a “climacteric”, a point when the growth rate started slowing down. Think of it like driving your car up a hill. Once it starts running out of [...]

15th August 2009 | Comments Closed

New Zealand and the European Union edited by Matthew Gibbons.

Political Review July /August 1996. An earlier version was published as ‘Of Dogma and Dealers’. Electronic Journal of Organisational Theory

Keywords: Business & Finance; Political Economy & History;

It is sometimes hard to recognise the New Zealand which the enthusiasts for the recent reforms portray.

1st August 2009 | Comments Closed