Stout Research Centre Research Roundup: 26 October 2011
(A previous version of this paper is at http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/?p=1504)
Keywords: Political Economy & History;
Today I want to talk about my current project: writing a history of New Zealand from an economics perspective – it has the tentative title Not in Narrow Seas.
Economics is not much of an experimental [...]
Fabian Society, Wellington, 20 October, 2011
(Note that this is a revised version of the paper at http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/?p=1524.
Keywords: History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy; Macroeconomics & Money;
Tonight I want to talk about our economic priorities. I’m going to differ from the conventional wisdom by arguing we should pay less attention to the growth of material output [...]
Paper to NZIIA Seminar ‘Addressing the Global Agenda’, 20 October 2011
Keywords: Globalisation & Trade;
My message today is both simple and troubling.[1] The simple version is that the unipolar world is coming to an end, and is being replaced by a multipolar one. The change reflects a new phase in the globalisation of the world economy, [...]
Poverty in New Zealand, St Peters on Willis , Wellington, 17 October, 2011. (This followed a presentation by Stephanie McIntyre, the director of the Downtown Community Ministry.)
Keywords: History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy; Political Economy & History;
I want to begin by saying I have an enormous respect for Stephanie McIntyre, the team she works with, [...]
Listener: 14 October, 2011.
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; Regulation & Taxation;
I have been preoccupied by leaky building syndrome, which may have damaged up to 110,000 dwellings as well as costing considerable domestic stress and even lives. Commercial and public buildings have suffered, too. There were many causes of the disaster but it illustrates the failure of [...]
Listener: 1 October, 2011.
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money;
The world’s economic difficulties arise because so many balance sheets are badly balanced. A balance sheet – of a person, a business, a financial institution, a government or a country – consists of the entity’s assets on the left and its liabilities on the right. (Accountants are such a [...]
Listener: 17 September, 2011.
Keywords: Environment & Resources; Governance;
The cinema may give a good idea about the sewers of Paris and Vienna, but I have little idea what goes on underneath the city in which I live. I just pull the plug or chain and the waste magically disappears.
For the citizens of Christchurch, it did that [...]
Thiis was prepared for an essay competition on Chemistry, However it did not meet the competition rules. The ‘Listener’ column it refers to is ‘My Chemical Romance’ at http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/?p=934
Keywords: Miscellaneous;
The Listener economics column which follows this introduction was published in a January when I write columns which, while covering an economic topic, are more general [...]
Letter to Herald on Sunday, published 4 September 2011
Keywords: Political Economy & History;
Debrioh Coddington said I blamed ‘Rogernomics for Pike River’s 29 miner deaths’. (Herald on Sunday, 28 August) I did not and have not. I await the outcome of the Royal Commission which is far more expert and informed than I am. It may [...]
Listener: 3 September, 2011.
Keywords: Growth & Innovation;
Does New Zealand deserve the Rugby World Cup? No, I am not concerned about who wins it; I hope the best team wins, and you know who that is. But do we deserve to be hosts?
Compare our feeble efforts with other big tournaments whose hosts deliberately use it to [...]
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