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NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE EXPERIENCED GENERATIONS

Speech to Launch the Report “New Insights into the Experienced Generation” for the Hope Foundation, 30 July 2009
 
Keywords: Social Policy; Statistics;
 
This report represents a further step to our understanding of ourselves as a society. Only a few decades ago we treated all New Zealanders as the same, with the implicit assumption that they [...]

30th July 2009 | Comments Closed

HOLLOW AUCKLAND

There are at least three good reasons that the restructuring of our largest city will fail.
 
Listener: 25 July, 2009.
 
Keywords: Governance;  Growth & Innovation;
 
Author Bruce Jesson once said New Zealand was a “hollow society”. He meant that although we had a central government and individuals, the social institutions between them lacked independence. The government preceded [...]

25th July 2009 | Comments Closed

WAS PAUL RIGHT?

Sea of Faith Conference: 18 July, 2009.  Auckland
 
Paul, Timothy Money and the Economy discusses the same biblical text, but in terms as to what it reveals about Paul’s views of the economy.  
 
Keywords: History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy;
 
I thought good context for today’s paper would be a biblical text – verses [...]

18th July 2009 | Comments Closed

EQUITY AND THE TAX SYSTEM

Tax, Saving Welfare and Retirement: Have We Lost our Way? Symposium, Retirement Policy and Research Centre, University of Auckland, 16 July, 2009
 
Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Maynard Keynes
 
Keywords: Distributional Economics; History of Ideas, Methodology & [...]

16th July 2009 | Comments Closed

UNDERSTANDING THE FISCAL IMPERATIVES

Paper for Towards a Value Driven Public Sector Summit, 15 July, 2009.
 
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; Regulation & Taxation; Social Policy;
 
Before talking about the fiscal imperatives in the narrow sense, I want to make a couple of general remarks about the rhetoric of policy. .
 
The first is that the need for [...]

15th July 2009 | Comments Closed

ROCKY HORROR SHOW

Could New Zealand become a “Southern Rock”?
 
Listener: 11 July, 2009.
 
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money;
 
Northern Rock, a British bank specialising in mortgages, nearly went bust a couple of years ago. It was getting a quarter of its funds from depositors, with the remaining three-quarters coming from the international money market – that is, from other financial [...]

11th July 2009 | Comments Closed

ECONOMIC GROWTH RESEARCH IN NEW ZEALAND: THE FATHERS THAT BEGAT US

Paper to the 50th Anniversary Conference of the New Zealand Association of Economists: 1 July, 2009: Wellington.
 Keywords: Growth & Innovation; History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy; Statistics;
 
This paper looks only at the first 25 years of the New Zealand research program on economic growth. It focuses on the empirical analysis but refers to [...]

1st July 2009 | Comments Closed