Paper for NZIIA Seminar “New Zealand and the BRIC Group”, 24 November 2009 It may be useful to first read New Developments in Trade and Trade Theory. Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; I begin with a question; its answer eventually leads to an extraordinary scenario for the future of the world. ‘What two countries had the…
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Economic recovery means government spending restraints and higher taxes. Listener: 21 November, 2009. Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; In Through the Looking Glass, Humpty Dumpty warns us to be careful with the meaning of words. So what to call a world economy generally turning to custard? No one wanted to call it a “depression” because of…
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<a name=”TOP”></a> NZIIA Mini-seminar on New Zealand’s Overseas Trade: Policies and Practices One Hundred Years Experience of Overseas Trade Development. 9 November, 2009 Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; Three centuries ago, there was little international trade. Almost all involved ‘absolute advantage’, the exchange of products which could not be locally produced. Because the cost of transportwas…
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<a name=”TOP”></a> Conference to Celebrate 25 Years of the St Andrews Trust for the Study of Religion and Society, 7 November, 2009. Keywords: History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy; I am traditionalist enough to begin a presentation in a church with a biblical text. Verses 5 to 10 of chapter 6 of the first pastoral…
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Recent devastation in the Pacific has a parallel in the great New Zealand tsunami. Listener: 7 November, 2009. Keywords: Maori; Political Economy & History; The sea grew dark and troubled and angry, and presently a great wave, which gathered strength as it came, swept towards the shore. It advanced over the beach, sweeping Titipa and…
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