In early 2009 I published a summary of my writings on the Global Financial Crisis from August 2007 to March 2009: www.eastonbh.ac.nz/?p=1351 (itself following an early note on what I called the Millennium Depression: www.eastonbh.ac.nz/?p=174). This index updates the earlier summary and its prologue remains relevant here.
The summary is to trace my thinking on [...]
Keywords: Health;
Time and Money Spent Gambling and the Relationship with Quality-of-life Measures: A National Study of New Zealanders (July 2010) Journal of Gambling Issues
http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/?p=1336
Measuring the Impact of Gambling (February 2009) Paper to Wellington Statistical Group
http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/?p=938
Assessment of the Social Impacts of Gambling in New Zealand (January 2009) Report to the Mnistry of Health
http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/?p=929
Socioeconomic Impacts of Gambling [...]
The crew worked extremely hard to keep the good ship New Zealand afloat.
Listener: 18 September, 2010.
Keywords: Governance; Macroeconomics & Money; Political Economy & History;
When Alan Bollard transferred from the position of secretary of the Treasury to that of the governor of the Reserve Bank, a good friend announced it was “more pay for less stress”. [...]
Keywords: Health; Regulation & Taxation;
The Social Costs of Alcohol Misuse
The Regulation of Alcohol
COSTS AND BENEFITS AND ALCOHOL POLICY
A Note for the Symposium on Cost-benefit Analysis on Alcohol Policy Barcelona, 18-19 October 2010
Keywords: Health;
This note covers three issues involving cost-benefit analysis (and the related cost of illness analysis) . At the heart of each is a neoclassical theory of decision making, for CBA is rigorously underpinned by various [...]
I was asked what was the impact of these two events on the New Zealand economy. This hurried note covers some, but not all, the effects. a major omission is the impact of the private capital flows arising out of the compensation by insurers.
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money;
These are harder questions to answer than they [...]
For the 131st AGM of the New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association, 13 September, 2001 in Christchurch. (Revised)
Keywords: Business & Finance; Globalisation and Trade; Growth & Innovation;
This presentation takes place barely a week after the Great Canterbury Earthquake. It is a tribute to the fortitude of those who are here and their ancestors who put [...]
Selling products around the world is much more complicated than it once seemed.
Listener: 4 September, 2010
Keywords: Business & Finance; Globalisation & Trade;
There is no problem understanding why Fonterra exports milk products to China. New Zealand is a very efficient producer of milk, and it sells its large surplus offshore. But why does Fonterra have a [...]
I was asked to write something about my use of the A2Js which are being digitised on the web.
Keywords: Political Economy & History;
In 2008 I was the Robert Stout Fellow with a room at the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies. It was common for me to pop across to the university library, [...]
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