New Zealand Schooling is Already in the Top Half of the OECD
Listener 30 November, 2002
Keywords: Education;
Would you believe that on the available measures New Zealand is already in the top half of the OECD as far as education goes? Nothing in this column says it could not be improved. But by failing to celebrate success we downgrade the nation’s achievement, and leave ourselves open to some quack’s dangerous medicine.
Paper to the Wellington Health Economists Group, Thursday 29 November, 2002.(1)
Keywords: Distributional Economics; Health; History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy; Statistics;
Introduction.
This is a brief summary of a 100 plus page report, The Economic and Health Status of Households,(2) prepared by Suzie Ballantyne and myself. The data base was the Household Economic Survey (HES). For the three year period covering 1994/5-1996/7 the HES included questions on the respondents’ recent utilisation of health services together with as a subjective assessment of each’s health status, as well as socioeconomic variables such as income and expenditure and personal characteristics.
The Green Maori (May 1990)
The Maori Broadcasting Claim: A Pakeha Economist’s Perspective (September 1990)
Evidence of Brian Easton with Respect to Te Oneroa-O-Tohe (March 1991)
Tikanga and Te Oneroa-O-Tohe (May 1991)
Fishing and the Chatham Islands (September 1993)
The Maori Geothermal Claim: A Pakeha Economist’s Perspective (September 1993)
The Political Economy of Fish (January 1997).
The Commercialisation of New Zealand Appendix to Chapter 2 (July 1997)
Tapping the Source: Should Water Rights Be Made Tradeable? (August 1997)
Is the RMA Sustainable?: the Politics of the Coase Theorem (July 1998)
The Ownership, Management, and Regulation of Water (And Wastewater) (July 1998)
Growth Rings (January 2000)
Postcard From Arabia (April 2000)
Future Directions for the Ministry for the Environment (August 2002)
Rhetoric and Iraq: Arab Brothers and Oil Sisters (October 2002)
Paper for the 2002 Labour Employment and Work Conference. 21 November, 2002. (1)
Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; Labour Studies;
It is argued that globalisation was a far more potent force in the nineteenth century, than it has been in the late twentieth, for then labour was highly mobile as well as capital and goods – although it was really only European labour which was mobile. Moreover, aside from initiative, the labour which migrated probably had similar characteristics to those which stayed behind.(2)
Listener 16 November, 2002.
Keywords: Business & Finance; Macroeconomics & Money; Regulation & Taxation;
Tamaloa wants to go back to Samoa for an aiga maliu (family funeral). With no spare cash he needs to borrow. He has no record with any core financial institution, no assets to secure a loan, only the prospect of repaying out of future earnings, which sadly are not as secure as those of the Palangi. No bank will advance him a loan, so he goes to a fringe financial institution, and ends up paying a much higher interest rate.
History
Sequencing (December 1983)
Freeze and Thaw
(July 1984)
Ssh …It’s the Big ‘‘D’’ (August 1984)
Confidentially Yours (August 1984)
Devaluation!: Five Turbulent Days in 1984 and Then … (July 1985)
Economic Liberalisation: Where Do People Fit In?
(May 1987)
From Run to Float: the Making of the Rogernomics Exchange Rate Policy (September 1989)
Liberalization Sequencing: The New Zealand Case (December 1989)
Towards A Political Economy of New Zealand: the Tectonics of History (October 1994)
The Wild Bunch?: An Inquiry is Needed to Restore Treasury’s Integrity (August 1996)
The Great Diversification: Ch 9 of Globalization and a Welfare State (December 1997)
The State Steps In: Michael Bassett Makes A Case for Intervention. (August 1999)
Remaking New Zealand and Australian Economic Policy by Shaun Goldfinch (August 2001)
The Treasury and the Nationbuilding State (December 2001)
Evaluation
New Zealand’s Economic Performance This is an Index
Economic and Other Ideas Behind the New Zealand Reforms
(October 1994)
For Whom the Deal Tolls (Of Dogma and Dealers) (August 1996)
The Economic Impact of the Employment Contracts Act (October 1997)
Microeconomic Reform: The New Zealand Experience (February 1998)
Some Macroeconomics of the Employment Contracts Act (November 1998)
View From Abroad: What Do We Know about Economic Growth? (May 1999)
The Model Economist: Bryan Philpott (1921-2000) (August 2000)
Comparison with Australia: New Zealand’s Post-war Economic Growth Performance (August 2002)
The Debate
Waist Deep in the Big Muddy? (February 1991)
Friends in High Places: Rogernomic Policies Have Powerful Allies in Australia (April 1994)
Systemic Failure (December 1995)
Ignoring the Critics (February 1997)
A Permanent Revolution? (March 1997)
In the Dark: The State of Research Into the Economy is An Embarrassment (June 1997)
The New Zealand Experiment: A Model for World Structural Adjustment? (Review) (July 1997)
Out of Tune: Even the Officials Admit the Health Reforms Were Fatally Flawed. (December 1997)
Money for Jams: the Government Response to Roading Reforms is Commercialisation. (January 1998)
Reforms, Risks, and Rogernomics (March 1999)
The London Economist and the New Zealand Economy (December 2000)
Locked Out: of Free Press and Free Economics (May 2001)
A Surplus of Imitation (June 2001)
Government Spending and Growth Rates: A Methodological Debate (January-May 2002)
From Pavlova Paradise Revisited by Austin Mitchell (July 2002)
Manure and the Modern Economy: Has Economic Policy Hardly Changed? (September 2002)
From is This As Good As it Gets? (December 2002)
1999 and All That (January 2004)
Books
The Commercialisation of New Zealand (1997)
In Stormy Seas: the Post-war New Zealand Economy (Chapters 15-16) (1997)
The Whimpering of the State: Policy After MMP (1999)
Theory
Economics in Healthcare Sector (June 2000).
International Guidelines for Estimating the Costs of Substance Abuse (2 Ed) (August 2001).
Examples
Prostate Economics (February 1993).
The Social Costs of Tobacco Use and Alcohol Misuse (April 1997).
Up in Smoke, Down the Drain: How Tobacco and Alcohol Abuse Cost Us $39b (June 1997).
Who Should Be Treated? Interferon-ß for Multiple Sclerosis (June 1999).
Desperate for Funds: Treating Multiple Sclerosis Raises Questions (November 1999).
Estimating the Economic Costs of Alcohol Misuse (March 2000).
Pain and Health Economics (June 2001).
Injecting Drug Use and the Projected Costs of Hepatitis C (September 2002).
Well-health and the Future of the Pharmacist (August 2003).
The Analysis of Costs and Benefits of Gambling (September 2003).
Evaluating A Trans-Tasman Agency to Regulate Therapeutic Products (December 2003)
Books
The Commercialisation of New Zealand 1997
The Whimpering of the State: Policy After MMP (Chapters 10-11) 1999.
Critiques
The New Zealand Health Reforms in Context (Chapter 9 & Appendix) June 2002.
The Managerial Revolution
Systemic Failure (December 1995)
Out of Tune: Even the Officials Admit the Health Reforms Were Fatally Flawed. (December 1997)
Money for Jams: the Government Response to Roading Reforms is Commercialisation (January 1998)
Two Styles of Management (July 1999)
The Cult of the Manager: Those Who Can, Do; Those Who Cant, Become Managers (February 2000)
Details
It’s in the Blood (December 1992)
Health Disservice (April 1997)
The Seven Percent Solution: A Background to the Proposed Health Referendum (January 1998)
The Hospital Balance Sheet Crisis (July 1999)
Funding Public Health Care: How and How Much? (March 2002)
Well-health and the Future of the Pharmacist (August 2003)
Press release for 4th November 2002 from Wellington branch of CPAG Inc
Keywords: Social Policy;
What has long been known to those who work with families, researchers, and social commentators, is now accepted by the Ministry of Social Development. Children and their parents are the largest group of the poor. The exact numbers may remain in dispute, but the orders of magnitude are not. A high proportion of New Zealand’s children and their parents are below any reasonable poverty line.
Will the Recession Be So Severe That it Will Count As the ‘Millennium Depression’?
Listener 2 November, 2002.
Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; Growth & Innovation; Macroeconomics & Money;
There was increasing pessimism about the state of the world economy among the international economic commentators I admire. Those who are paid to talk up the financial markets continue to predict optimistically – so far, four of the last zero economic upturns.
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