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SO YOU DON’T GET IT?

Being brilliant does not mean you are right. 
Listener: 23 September, 2006. 
Keywords: Business & Finance; 
Like most senior executives, Enron’s Jeffrey Skilling could be charming, creative, inspiring and playful; he could also be moody, arrogant and intolerant. Described by some as “incandescently brilliant”, and “the smartest person I ever met”, he saw intelligence as a supreme virtue, [...]

23rd September 2006 | Comments Closed

NOTES TOWARDS THE DISTRIBUTIONAL CONSEQUENCES OF POLICY CHANGES

This is a simplified version of a paper to the Joint Conference between the Social Welfare Research Centre of the University of New South Wales and the New Zealand Planning Council, 10-11 November 1988, published in the Proceedings edited by Peter Saunders and Adam Jamrozik, as SWRC Report No 78, September 1989. This version was [...]

17th September 2006 | Comments Closed

TO CELEBRATE THE JOBS LETTER CONTRIBUTION TO THE PUBLIC DEBATE AND REGRET ITS DEMISE

Published in the last issues of The Jobs Letter 254, 9 September 2006 (http://www.jobsletter.org.nz)
 
Keywords: Labour Studies;
 
It seems a such long time since unemployment peaked in early 1992 in at 11.1 percent of the labour force, when over 181,000 New Zealanders were jobless and actively seeking work. Others had become so disheartened that they were not [...]

9th September 2006 | Comments Closed

A FATE WORSE THAN DEBT: We owe too much. Go figure.

Listener: 9 September, 2006. 
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; 
The external deficit (of the current account of New Zealand’s balance of payments) is currently around 10 percent of GDP. Once, a deficit of three percent of GDP was thought about right; we got edgy when it rose above five percent. Should we, then, be panicking now? 
Things are very [...]

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