Milton Friedman (1912-2006) contributed to economic analysis but was also an important economic philosopher. Listener: 24 February, 2007. Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; When Friedman visited New Zealand in 1981 he was interviewed for the Listener. Told that money supply (in this case Reserve Bank-issued currency plus trading bank lending, what economists call “M1”)…
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Paper for “Corporate Governance in the Public Sector 2007 Conference”, Wednesday 19 February, Wellington. [1] Keywords: Governance; By the 1980s the traditional regulation of New Zealand’s private and public sectors had become increasingly obsolete. The story of the shift to ‘more-market’ and the privatisation of some of the public sector is well known….
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Contribution to a Panel on ‘The Big Questions and Research Challenges in the economic history of Australia and New Zealand?’ AEHB Conference, Sydney, 14 February, 2007. Keywords: Political Economy & History; I have been asked to offer a New Zealand perspective on some of the big questions facing New Zealand economic history. My…
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A RESEARCH CHALLENGE IN THE ECONOMIC HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND: Paper to a workshop at the 2007 EHSANZ Conference, Sydney, 14 February 2007.[1] Keywords: Political Economy & History; Exceptionalism is the notion that one nation’s story differs qualitatively from others, because of its unique origins, national credo, historical evolution, distinctive political and religious…
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The author has been awarded a 2007 Claude McCarthy Fellowship to develop a new economic history of New Zealand. This paper raises some issues. Keywords: Political Economy & History; General Histories of New Zealand New Zealand general histories tend to ignore the economy and its implications for the evolution of New Zealand….
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Studies of race relations are sometimes used to bolster prejudice, not reveal the truth. Listener: 10 February, 2007. Keywords: Health; Maori; Social Policy; Don Brash’s January 2004 Orewa speech may have been a key event in New Zealand race relations. The earlier foreshore and seabed decisions had stirred a restlessness about…
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Comments on a paper by Michael Moriarty. New Zealand-Pasifika: Interactions and Perspectives Conference, 8 February, 2007. Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; Thankyou Michael for a thought-provoking paper. Let me introduce your subject by saying a little more about the theory of borders. We need to distinguish jurisdictional borders from geographical borders. Jurisdictional…
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