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BUDGETS I HAVE KNOWN

When the economy is dire, first Budgets can be good, bad or an ugly shade of black. 
Listener: 30 May, 2009.  Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; Political Economy & History; 
: Macroeconomics & Money; Political Economy & History; The first Budget of a new government is a defining moment. The Key Government’s is on Thursday, May 28. How will [...]

30th May 2009 | Comments Closed

SOMEONE’S GOING TO PAY

Come Budget day, expect some wailing and gnashing of teeth. 
 
Listener: 16 May, 2009. 
 
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; 
 
We are in the recessionary equivalent of a phoney war. The economy is certainly in a recession – it began in early 2008 and is already one of our longest postwar ones. We may be able to see signs of [...]

16th May 2009 | Comments Closed

THE BRENDAN THOMPSON PRIZE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS

The Waikato Management School annually awards a prize in memory of Brendan Thompson to the to student in the international economics course. By coincidence I was in Hamilton for the 2009 School of Management Prize giving on 5 May, and again was asked to give the prize awarded in his memory ( [...]

5th May 2009 | Comments Closed

WHY I AM A SCIENTIST

Café Scientifique; University of Waikato, May 5, 2009
 
Keywords: History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy;
 
I was asked to talk about my time as a science student at school. I shall do a little of that, and also at university, but do so in order to provide a foundation for a discussion [...]

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PAUL, TIMOTHY MONEY AND THE ECONOMY

Presentation to begin a discussion on the Global financial Crisis; to the ‘God Talk’ series at the  the Cathedral Church of St Peters, Hamilton Cathedral, May 3, 2009.

Keywords: History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy; Macroeconomics & Money;

I thought context for this evening’s discussion would be a biblical [...]

3rd May 2009 | Comments Closed

THE CURSE OF CASSANDRA

Would you rather be comforted or told the truth?
 
Listener: 2 May, 2009.
 
Keywords: History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy;  Macroeconomics & Money; Political Economy & History;

April 26 is the centenary of the birth of the great 20th-century newspaper columnist William Connor, who wrote under the byline Cassandra. The allusion is to a princess of Troy whose [...]

2nd May 2009 | Comments Closed