You Can’t Talk About An “Underclass” Without Implying That There is Also An Overclass. Listener: 24 March, 2007. Keywords: Political Economy & History; Aside from those in the various communist parties, National’s John Key may be the first leader of a political party since Labour’s Harry Holland (who died in 1933) to…
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Revised commentary on “Energy Policy, Climate Change and Targets”, by Jonathon Boston. To the Institute of Policy Studies Roundtable on Energy Policy and Climate Change: Tuesday 20 March 2007. Keywords: Environment & Resources; Regulation & Taxation; Targeting is a form of indicative planning. What have we learned from past exercises? First we need a taxonomy,…
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Innovation and Independence: the Reserve Bank of New Zealand 1973-2002. John Singleton with Arthur Grimes, Gary Hawke and Frank Holmes. (Auckland University Press in association with the Ministry of Culture and Heritage). A longer version of the review published in New Zealand Books Autumn 2007. p.11. Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; This history…
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Presentation to a Reserve Bank Seminar, 16 March, 2006 Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; Introduction Later this year Auckland University Press is to publish my book Globalisation and the Wealth of Nations, which is the result of a project supported by a Marsden Fund Grant. It is a big book, as befits the…
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Are middle-income earners missing out as those at the top get richer? Not lately. Listener: March 10, 2007. Keywords: Distributional Economics; There is a theory that people on middle incomes are not doing as well as those at the top. Either their jobs are disappearing, their pay is being depressed, or both….
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By Brian Gould (Craig Potton 2006) 175pp. $29.95. Review for New Zealand International Review, March/April 2007. p. 29 Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; As an economics student I was struck by Paul Samuelson’s notion that the market place was a ‘democracy’ in which consumers expressed their preferences by their purchases. But it is a democracy…
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Keywords: Distributional Economics; Maori; Statistics; The following summarises the income statistics used in the Listener economics columns of the March 11 & 25, and April 7. The data is derived directly from the official Population Census for the relevant years. As the column details, it is reported income including social security benefits, before tax and…
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