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A CLASH OF TITANS

Chaotic capitalist India v orderly communist China.
Listener: 22 January, 2011
Keywords: Political Economy & History;
Some 125 million years ago a huge chunk of land broke off from Gondwanaland, drifting away at a rate of 20 cms a year (roughly five times the speed the West Coast is drifting north). About 50 million years ago, the triangle [...]

22nd January 2011 | Comments Closed

A NEW APPROACH TO REDUCING INTERVENTION ON FARM PRODUCTS

I wrote this to set out my thinking.
Keywords: Globalisation & Trade;
The economics of the world food system in the twenty-first century is likely to be dramatically different from that of the twentieth. In the past, food prices fell relative to manufacturing prices, as manufacturing concentrated in a few rich (mainly North Atlantic but later also [...]

10th January 2011 | Comments Closed

THE PARTY IS OVER

The Great Gatsby recognises the essential role of the economy in human experience.
Listener: 8 January 2011
Keywords: Business & Finance; Literature and Culture; Political Economy & History;
On occasions, Auckland has outbreaks of Great Gatsby parties. This name alludes to the classic F Scott Fitzgerald novel, narrated by Nick Carraway who lives on New York’s Long Island, [...]

8th January 2011 | Comments Closed