Listener: 20 January, 1992 Keywords: History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy; Suppose you were lost in the bush, and wanted to find the sea. One strategy would be to follow a river downhill. It may not be the best way but you do get there. Economists portray market behaviour a bit like this. Here, the…
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Published in The Dominion in January 1992
Keywords: Literature and Culture;
This selection is a New Zealand response to 101 Best Australian Books, complied by John Arnold and Peter Pierce for November’s Bulletin magazine. Their selection was influenced by the personal inclinations of the compilers. within constraints to produce a representative listing in terms of subject, chronological spread and gender. They were limited to one book per author and appear to have ruled out books with multiple authors such The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. The Bulletin list is in alphabetical order. This is grouped into loose chronological order by subject (rather than by publication date).