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A MULTIPOLAR WORLD ECONOMY?

Paper for NZIIA Seminar �New Zealand and the BRIC Group�, 24 November 2009
It may be useful to first read New Developments in Trade and Trade Theory.
Keywords: Globalisation & Trade;
I begin with a question; its answer eventually leads to an extraordinary scenario for the future of the world. �What two countries had the largest [...]

THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME

Economic recovery means government spending restraints and higher taxes.
Listener: 21 November, 2009.
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money;
In Through the Looking Glass, Humpty Dumpty warns us to be careful with the meaning of words. So what to call a world economy generally turning to custard? No one wanted to call it a “depression” because of the [...]

NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN TRADE AND TRADE THEORY

<a name=”TOP”></a> NZIIA Mini-seminar on New Zealand�s Overseas Trade:� Policies and Practices One Hundred Years Experience of Overseas Trade Development. 9 November, 2009
Keywords: Globalisation & Trade;
Three centuries ago, there was little international trade. Almost all involved �absolute advantage�, the exchange of products which could not be locally produced. Because the cost of transportwas high, the [...]

PAUL AND THE MODERN ECONOMY

<a name=”TOP”></a> Conference to Celebrate 25 Years of the St Andrews Trust for the Study of Religion and Society, 7 November, 2009.
Keywords: History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy;
I am traditionalist enough to begin a presentation in a church with a biblical text. Verses 5 to 10 of chapter 6 of the first pastoral epistle [...]

THE BIG WAVE

Recent devastation in the Pacific has a parallel in the great New Zealand tsunami.
Listener: 7 November, 2009.
Keywords: Maori; Political Economy & History;
The sea grew dark and troubled and angry, and presently a great wave, which gathered strength as it came, swept towards the shore. It advanced over the beach, sweeping Titipa and all his fish [...]

CHARACTERISTICS ASSOCIATED WITH HAPPINESS

This is the draft of a paper for 2009 Conference of the New Zealand Statistical Association, 3 September 2009. The presentation was a PowerPoint based on it. It is part of a study of the impact of drinking by associates undertaken by the� Centre for Social and Health Outcomes, Research and Evaluation (SHORE), Massey University. [...]

Brian Easton