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WELL PLAYED, BOLLARD

My team of the year is the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.�
Listener: 27 December, 2008�
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; �
United States President-elect Barack Obama talks about a �crisis of historic proportions�. We are certainly in the midst of New Zealand�s greatest financial crisis, far more serious than the 1984 run on the dollar, which was unwound [...]

NOT SO SIMPLE

Why we shouldn�t have a tax cut right now.�
Listener: 13 December, 2008�
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; �
With the world in financial turmoil and entering an economic downswing, many of those who once abused Keynesian economics are now clamouring for what they think are Keynesian policies. Unfortunately, their view of Keynesian economics was overly simplistic when they [...]

DEED OF AGREEMENT

Between Brian Easton and Penguin Publishing in Relation to Matters Concerning Roderick Deane: His Life and Times, by Michael Bassett and Judith Basset,
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Keywords: Political Economy & History;
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APPENDIX I: DEED OF AGREEMENT
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THIS DEED is dated the 17th day of October 2008
BETWEEN �� BRIAN HENRY EASTON of Wellington Economist (Easton)
AND �� PEARSON [...]

THE PLAYGROUND SERIES

Contribution to the catalogue of the Vivian Lynn exhibition at the Adams Art Gallery, VUW (October 2008 – March 2009).

Keywords: Literature and Culture;

It is said that if you remember the 1960s, you were not there. The 1970s were� much more problematic, not least because of the new wave of feminism. What was a [...]

DISPUTE OVER ERRORS IN DEANE BIOGRAPHY SETTLED

Press Release: 12 December, 2008.
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Keywords: Political Economy & History;
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The dispute between Brian Easton in regard to the 2006 publication of Roderick Deane: His Life and Times written by Michael and Judith Bassett and published by Penguin Books has been resolved to Dr Easton�s satisfaction.
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He objected to the two things written about him in the [...]

PROSPECTS FOR THE NEW YEAR

Address to the Wellington Branch of the Institute of Directors, 4 December, 2008.�
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money;�
When I was invited to address you, it was suggested I should � in the spirit of the season � say something light. After all, we are about to break for a few weeks to be spent with family and [...]

TRADING PLACES

Economic geography is all location, location, location�
Listener: 29 November, 2008�
Keywords: Globalisation & Trade;�
When I was awarded a Marsden Grant to study globalisation in 2004, I was pretty clear about the -subject�s economics. As the costs of distance (such as transport costs) fell, the opportunities and benefits from trade rose, and that would transform society.�
You will [...]

�It�s The Same This Time?�

Cycles and Depressions in New Zealand History

This is a revised version of a paper given to IPS seminar, 22 November 2008. It is similar to the article published in Policy Quarterly, Volume 3, No 1, February 2009, pp.17-23.

Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; Political Economy & History;

Introduction

It is said that [...]

SWING LOW

Is the global “millennium recession” arriving too late?
Listener: 15 November, 2008.

Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money;

The world “millennium recession” I wrote about in 2002 never eventuated. So what happened to it?
The short answer is that the Bush administration increased the US Government deficit by spending more (especially on warfare) and cutting taxes (so Americans had more money [...]

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