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Welcome to Brian Easton's Website

I am an independent scholar especially interested in New Zealand. My writings and research are especially concerned with its economics, history, politics, sociology and culture.

This website is to make more available some of my writings and the research which underpins them. Because there is an enormous backlog, only some of the material is available, although I am adding most weeks.

The New Zealand Portrait Gallery's 60 Makers of New Zealand: 1930-1990. http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/?p=1575

Brian�s Writings on the Great Financial Crisis are at http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/?p=1353

This website is only possible because of help from my son, Tamatea Easton. I am grateful for his invaluable assistance.

THE ECONOMICS OF ALCOHOL

Presentation to the Wellington School of Medicine: 23 March 2012
Keywords: Health; Regulation & Taxation;
This presentation was based upon the paper to the Global Alcohol Policy Conference, 14-16 February. It is at http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/?p=1633

NEW ZEALAND SHOULD TAX FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS

Listener: 17 Match, 2012.
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; Regulation & Taxation;
Eminent economist James Tobin in 1972 suggested a financial transaction tax on spot-market currency conversions. Many others have supported him. That includes people who don’t like money and think of a financial transaction tax as a sin tax. (Tobin certainly did not. He was awarded a [...]

WHAT ARE OUR ECONOMIC PRIORITIES?

Presentation to the Golden Bay U3A, 6 March, 2012.
Keywords: History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy; Macroeconomics & Money;
This presentation was based upon a Spirited Conversation given at Nelson 24 August, 2011. The latest version of the paper is at http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/?p=1524

A CANTERBURY EARTHQUAKE LEVY WOULD BE PRUDENT

Listener: 3 March 2012.
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; Regulation & Taxation;
Forecasts for the New Zealand economy have been wound back since last year. Given the deteriorating state of the world economy, they will probably be wound back even further. And that’s going to make it even harder for the Government to meet its election promise of [...]

THE COURSE OF PRICES: 1860 to Today

An appendix for Not in Narrow Seas: New Zealand History from an Economic Perspective
The work was funded by a grant from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand which is not responsible for any errors or interpretations. A version was presented to an RBNZ seminar on 1 March 2012.

Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; Political Economy & [...]

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