The producer is no longer king.
Listener: 29 December, 2007.
Keywords: Business & Finance;
It’s been a long way from the Agricultural Development Council (ADC) of 1963 to last month’s Primary Industries Summit – in both time and head space.
The ADC focused on the pastoral sector. In those days, dairy, meat and wool made up almost 90 percent [...]
Current economic debate rarely extends beyond hearsay and uninformed opinion.
Listener: 15 December, 2007.
Keywords: History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy; Political Economy & History;
Thirty years ago, a large majority of New Zealand economists argued for greater use of the market to regulate the economy. Prime Minister Rob Muldoon was sympathetic, but after almost losing the 1978 [...]
Chapter 3 of New Zealand, New Welfare, edited by N. Lunt, M. O’Brien & R. Stephens. (Cenage Learning, 2007)
Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; Labour Studies; Social Policy;
In March 1952, just two men were on the Department of Social Security’s unemployment benefit. The rules of entitlement partly determine the numbers, but those registered with the Department [...]
Ignore the happy brigade. The forces of recession are already in motion.
Listener: 1 December, 2007.
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money;
Larry Summers, the best economist ever to have been Secretary of the US Treasury, points out that major international financial crises occur about every three or four years. The last – the Enron bust – was five years [...]