Paper to MSD seminar of the Social Impacts of the Emissions Trading Scheme, Thursday 28 February, 2008. Keywords: Environment & Resources; Thankyou for the invitation to talk today. It is a pleasure to be working again with Computable General Equilibrium Models. In the early 1980s New Zealand was a world leader in CGE…
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Speech to the Tribal Economies Forum of the First Nations Futures Program, Christchurch: 23 February 2008 (Revised) Keywords: Governance; Maori; Tena kotou, katoa. Thankyou for the invitation to speak to you on tribal economies. It would not, however, be appropriate for me to tell this audience how to run their tribes. What…
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Cheers to George Laking: 1912-2008. Listener: 23 February, 2008. Keywords: Health; Regulation & Taxation; Sir George Laking rendered many services to New Zealanders. Perhaps none was as important as his chairing the 1989 government committee that recommended today’s liquor licensing regime. The consumption of liquor has always been a problem, less so in the distant…
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The days of having a dominant world currency are coming to an end. Listener: 9 February, 2008. Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; Macroeconomics & Money; When a barrel of oil rose to $US100, it also cost E69, $NZ130 and at least 200 million Zimbabwean dollars (at the unofficial exchange rate). There was some…
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This proposal to the Marsden Fund indicates the state of play in February 2008 Keywords: Political Economy & History; The last attempt to write a comprehensive New Zealand economic history was Condliffe’s New Zealand in the Making (1930) and The Welfare in New Zealand (1959). There are various studies which cover particular periods,…
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