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CRISIS POINT

We are paying a very high price for failing to regulate properly.
Listener: 20 February, 2010.
Keywords: Regulation & Taxation;
The global financial crisis is estimated to have cost the US Government US$90 billion, or about 0.6% of its annual output. The equivalent cost in New Zealand would be NZ$1.1 billion. But take a look at the cost [...]

GROWTH AND DEPRESSIONS IN NEW ZEALAND�S ECONOMIC HISTORY

Asia-Pacific Economics and Business History Conference, 17-19 February 2010.
Keywords: Political Economy & History;
Introduction
I originally said I would recycle the paper It�s the Same this Time? which I gave in November 2008 shortly after it became evident to everyone that the world economy was about to enter a severe recession � if it was not [...]

Regulatory Lessons from the Leaky Home Experience

Policy Quarterly, Vol 6, No 2, May 2010., based on a paper presented to a seminar �on 16 February, 2010.
Keywords: Regulation & Taxation;
I begin this paper with a manufacturer�s warning: that I use the term �regulation� slightly differently from the way it is used in some other papers presented in this symposium, coming [...]

TE ARA: INCOME AND WEALTH DISTRIBUTIONS

From the section �The Economy and the City� released February 2010.
Keywords: Distributional Economics
Te Ara is New Zealand�s On-line Encyclopaedia. The primary author of its section on the Income and Wealth Distributions ( www.teara.govt.nz/en/income-and-wealth-distribution ) was Brian Easton.
For other of his contributions
The Economy: www.teara.govt.nz/en/economy
New Zealand�s economic history: www.teara.govt.nz/en/economic-history

TE ARA: ECONOMIC HISTORY

From the section �The Economy and the City� released February 2010.
Keywords: Political Economy & History;
Te Ara is New Zealand�s On-line Encyclopaedia. The primary author of its section on� New Zealand�s economic history ( http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/economic-history ) was Brian Easton. <
For other of his contributions
The Economy: http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/economy
Income and Wealth Distributions: http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/income-and-wealth-distribution

AN L-ISH FUTURE?

Our economy is suffering from some severe imbalances that are hindering an upswing.
Listener: 6 February, 2010.
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money;
The so-called recovery of the New Zealand economy could turn out to be L-shaped. Under this scenario, after the economy reaches the bottom of the contraction, it doesn’t move into an upswing, either rapidly (the V scenario) [...]

Brian Easton