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WHAT ARE OUR ECONOMIC PRIORITIES?

Fabian Society, Wellington, 20 October, 2011
(Note that this is a revised version of the paper at http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/?p=1524.
Keywords: History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy; Macroeconomics & Money;
Tonight I want to talk about our economic priorities. I’m going to differ from the conventional wisdom by arguing we should pay less attention to the growth of material output [...]

20th October 2011 | Comments Closed

LOOSE REGULATIONS SINK ECONOMIES – AND BUILDINGS

Listener: 14 October, 2011.
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; Regulation & Taxation;
I have been preoccupied by leaky building syndrome, which may have damaged up to 110,000 dwellings as well as costing considerable domestic stress and even lives. Commercial and public buildings have suffered, too. There were many causes of the disaster but it illustrates the failure of [...]

14th October 2011 | Comments Closed

HOUSEHOLDS CAUSE BALANCE SHEET PROBLEMS

Listener: 1 October, 2011.
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money;
The world’s economic difficulties arise because so many balance sheets are badly balanced. A balance sheet – of a person, a business, a financial institution, a government or a country – consists of the entity’s assets on the left and its liabilities on the right. (Accountants are such a [...]

1st October 2011 | Comments Closed

WHAT ARE OUR ECONOMIC PRIORITIES?

Spirited Conversations: Nelson 24 August, 2011
A revised version of this column is at http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/?p=1549.
Keywords: History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy; Macroeconomics & Money;
Tonight I want to talk to talk about our economic priorities. I’m going to differ from the conventional wisdom by arguing we should pay less attention to the growth of material output and [...]

24th August 2011 | Comments Closed

US DEBT DEFAULT – WHERE TO FROM HERE?

Listener: 22 August, 2011.
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money;
How much theatre was involved in the congressional fracas over the raising of the US debt ceiling is hard to tell. Had the ceiling not been lifted, the unthinkable – or, at least, the unpredictable – would have happened, so perhaps the politicians were posturing, expecting a resolution while [...]

22nd August 2011 | Comments Closed

FIVE GREAT STAGNATIONS

Paper to Treasury Seminar: 26 July, 2011.
Keywords: Growth & Innovation; Macroeconomics & Money; Political Economy & History;

Introduction
I am writing a history of New Zealand from an economic perspective. Thankyou for the opportunity to present some of its material; it may have a contemporary relevance. I want particularly to thank John Whitehead, who issued [...]

26th July 2011 | Comments Closed

CONCLUDING COMMENTS TO THE MACROECONOMIC IMBALANCES CONFERENCE: June 24, Wellington.

Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money;
I should like to begin by congratulating the organisers of the conference. There has been an open, vigorous and flowing debate, reminiscent of the New Zealand economics community of the 1960s and 1970s, where a wide range of views were presented as diverse as Wolf Rosenberg on the left through to the [...]

24th June 2011 | Comments Closed

SECTORS AND PRICES: Exportables and the Real Exchange Rate

Some Preparatory Notes: ultimately not used.
Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; Macroeconomics & Money;
I am not sure you have asked the right person to be on the panel, since the topic is policy; my interests are research. So I thought I would consult an old friend, Cassandra. Fortunately I dont have to channel her; she has sent [...]

17th June 2011 | Comments Closed

OUR BIG LEAN GREEK WEDDING

What was available could have been shared out more fairly, but the Budget’s  courageous realism kept the shotguns unloaded
Listener: 4 June, 2011.
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money;
Mentioning credit ratings at the 2011 budget was like mentioning sex at a wedding. Everyone knows, but you dont say it. Instead they focus on the feast and festivities. Not that [...]

4th June 2011 | Comments Closed

NOT IN DENIAL

This was a note I wrote – ‘Listener’ style – in response to the critics of the 2011 budget.
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money;
Dealing with addiction is confounded by denial: ‘I’m not a drunk’; ‘One more wont hurt’; ‘I need it to get through the day’; ‘He drinks more than me’. ‘I’ve cut back my drinking (so [...]

19th May 2011 | Comments Closed
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