Once Upon A Time You Could See the Stock Market.
Listener: 19-26? April, 1997.
Keywords: Business & Finance; Globalisation & Trade;
While economists talk about “markets”, and business commentators personify them, it is rare to be able to see one as they are described in the textbooks. The stock market, which buys and sells company shares once had such a visible presence. David Grant’s book Bulls, Bears, and Elephants: A History of the New Zealand Stock Exchange is rich with stories of share market dealing – not all of which were honourable. It also pictures the stock market through time.
We Spend More on Health Care. Where Has it All Gone?
Listener: 12 April, 1997.
The great twentieth philosopher, Karl Popper advised scientists to be aware of how the scientific problem with which they are concerned changes over time. The same applies to policy advisers. Policy problems change, so the unaware adviser or politician may be trying to resolve an outdated issue.
A revised version of ‘Was There a Treaty of Waitangi, and was it a Social Contract?’ Archifacts, April 1997, p.21-49.
Keywords: History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy; Maori; Political Economy & History;
This paper arose out of consideration of what at first seemed to be a very straightforward problem.[1] In 1989 I was working with the Maori claims in regard to the broadcasting reforms.[2] I have told much of that elsewhere,[3] but the matter led to an investigation of the origins of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, in order to understand the entitlements to the property rights of the radio frequency spectrum by the Maori and by the Crown.
Report prepared for the Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand, the Health Research Council of New Zealand, and the Public Health Commission. Contents and Executive Summary. Published in full as Public Health Monograph No 2 Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine.
Keywords Health; Regulation
