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TAX AND EQUITY

PSA Journal, March 2010.
Keywords: Distributional Economics; Regulation & Taxation;
In my Commercialisation of New Zealand there is a chapter on �the abandoning of equity�, of how under Rogernomics social fairness went steadily down in the policy priorities. The report on tax reform by the Victoria University of Wellington Tax Working Group (TWG) confirms the relegation. Of [...]

TE ARA: INCOME AND WEALTH DISTRIBUTIONS

From the section �The Economy and the City� released February 2010.
Keywords: Distributional Economics
Te Ara is New Zealand�s On-line Encyclopaedia. The primary author of its section on the Income and Wealth Distributions ( www.teara.govt.nz/en/income-and-wealth-distribution ) was Brian Easton.
For other of his contributions
The Economy: www.teara.govt.nz/en/economy
New Zealand�s economic history: www.teara.govt.nz/en/economic-history

CAP IN HAND

Making the emissions trading scheme “affordable” may� hit future generations hard.
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Listener: 10 October, 2009.
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Keywords: Environment & Resources;�� Distributional Economics;
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Global warming is a consequence of a market failure: polluters emit chemicals without having to pay the price of their emissions. Some sort of taxation regime would no doubt make the world better [...]

LESS EQUAL THAN OTHERS

Societies with great inequality are more prone to poor health, social hostility and crime.

Listener: 29 August, 2009.

Keywords: Distributional Economics; History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy;

When I was working on the problems of inequality and poverty in the 1970s, my colleagues joked I was a social economist, even if they spent more time in bars, [...]

GROWTH V DISTRIBUTION

What the electoral economic debate is really about.
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Listener: 9 August 2008.
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Keywords: Distributional Economics; Growth & Innovation;
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Although the rhetoric of economic debate is about accelerating economic growth, the reality of politics is mainly about redistributing income.
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Merrill Lynch told the Australian insurance industry it would make a $200 million profit if ACC was privatised. PricewaterhouseCoopers said there [...]

HOUSEHOLD EQUIVALENTS FOR ENGEL CURVE TO ESTIMATION

Note prepared 6 April, 2008.
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Keywords: Distributional Economics; Statistics;
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The conventional Engel Curve relates expenditure on (usually) food (F) to aggregate household (usually) expenditure (X). Since it is a one-to-one relation it my be mathematically inverted to
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where z is a vector of other variables which are relevant.
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Such a function can be [...]

IS INEQUALITY REALLY INCREASING FROM GLOBALISATION?

The Weekend Herald of November 10, 2007 devoted three pages, to a Newsweek article which was strong on anecdote and opinion and weak on analysis and facts. I submitted the following note. They took a fortnight to tell me they had more important things to deal with.
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Keywords: Distributional Economics; Globalisation & Trade;
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The Newsweek article �The [...]

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