OPTIMISM AND PESSIMISM

This entry was posted in Listener, Macroeconomics & Money on 27th August 1994 by Brian Easton.

Listener: 27 August, 1994. Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; Should we be amused or amazed at the confidence of some economic commentators? While serious analysts struggle to understand what is happening, and what happened in the past, the prima donnas tell us, with a certainty only belied by their consistently poor forecasting record. Such gloomy…
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CHARGING STUDENTS

This entry was posted in Education, Listener on 13th August 1994 by Brian Easton.

Listener: 13 August, 1994 Keywords: Education; You might think on the basis of their public stance that all university economists support higher tertiary fees. Ten economists from the Auckland University Department of Economics wrote a 1987 report advocating student loans and student related to tuition costs. This was seized by the Wellington professor…
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