Keywords: Health; Time and Money Spent Gambling and the Relationship with Quality-of-life Measures: A National Study of New Zealanders (July 2010) Journal of Gambling Issues http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/?p=1336 Measuring the Impact of Gambling (February 2009) Paper to Wellington Statistical Group http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/?p=938 Assessment of the Social Impacts of Gambling in New Zealand (January 2009) Report to the Mnistry…
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The crew worked extremely hard to keep the good ship New Zealand afloat. Listener: 18 September, 2010. Keywords: Governance; Macroeconomics & Money; Political Economy & History; When Alan Bollard transferred from the position of secretary of the Treasury to that of the governor of the Reserve Bank, a good friend announced it was “more pay…
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Keywords: Health; Regulation & Taxation;
The Social Costs of Alcohol Misuse
The Regulation of Alcohol
COSTS AND BENEFITS AND ALCOHOL POLICY A Note for the Symposium on Cost-benefit Analysis on Alcohol Policy Barcelona, 18-19 October 2010 Keywords: Health; This note covers three issues involving cost-benefit analysis (and the related cost of illness analysis) . At the heart of each is a neoclassical theory of decision making, for CBA is rigorously…
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I was asked what was the impact of these two events on the New Zealand economy. This hurried note covers some, but not all, the effects. a major omission is the impact of the private capital flows arising out of the compensation by insurers. Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; These are harder questions to answer than…
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For the 131st AGM of the New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association, 13 September, 2001 in Christchurch. (Revised) Keywords: Business & Finance; Globalisation and Trade; Growth & Innovation; This presentation takes place barely a week after the Great Canterbury Earthquake. It is a tribute to the fortitude of those who are here and their ancestors…
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Selling products around the world is much more complicated than it once seemed. Listener: 4 September, 2010 Keywords: Business & Finance; Globalisation & Trade; There is no problem understanding why Fonterra exports milk products to China. New Zealand is a very efficient producer of milk, and it sells its large surplus offshore. But why does…
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I was asked to write something about my use of the A2Js which are being digitised on the web. Keywords: Political Economy & History; In 2008 I was the Robert Stout Fellow with a room at the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies. It was common for me to pop across to the university…
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New Zealand Home Health National Conference, 2 September, Auckland Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; Social Policy; I have been asked to present an account of the economic context in which the home health services industry will function. I am not going to talk about the rising demand for its services because of population shifts taking that…
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Why are we faring so badly when it comes to the health of our children? Listener 21 August, 2010. Keywords: Social Policy; We used to think New Zealand was the best place in the world to bring up children. Alas, this is no longer true, as the statistics in the box below show. They come…
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Paper for the launch of “Alcohol No Ordinary Commodity 2 ed”, 19 August, 2010. Keywords: Health; Regulation & Taxation; Executive Summary: This paper argues that the harm from the consumption of alcohol can be reduced by targeting the minimum of price of alcohol, but by using an excise drawback rather than setting a minimum price…
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Anglican Taonga, Spring 2010. Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; The world has just gone through its greatest financial crisis since the 1930s. We may be grateful that things were not as bad as was feared, but we need to recognise that while the financial stage of the crisis may be over, there are still economic consequences…
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Spectacular Growth May Be Masking Unstable Foundations. Listener, 7 August, 2010. Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; Political Economy & History; The question was asked aggressively, and came from the Australian-Chinese businessman as we sat down for lunch: “Is there a bubble?” I avoided a direct answer; I had only briefly visited China, but I knew what…
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This is a draft extract from a chapter of “Not in Narrow Seas: A History of New Zealand from an economic perspective”. It has been circulated and hence is put here on the website. Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; Political Economy & History; New Zealand’s greatest banking crisis came at the end of the Long Depression….
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This obituary was published in Foreign Control Watchdog 124 (August 2010) p.64-66. It is is based on Defender of the Vulnerable: Tributes to Hugh Price 1929-2009 (Steele Roberts, 2010), and complements Murray Horton’s obituary in the May 2010 issue which focused on the CAFCA and SIS dimensions of Hugh’s life. Keywords: Political Economy & History;…
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Prelude to Arbitration in Three Movements: Ulster, South Australia, New Zealand: 1890-1894 by W. J. Gardner (2009) 174pp. (Available from W. J. Gardner, Box 5634, Papanui, Christchurch 8542, $NZ30) Published in Labour History Project, Newsletter 49 July 2010, p.25-27. Keywords: Labour Studies; Political Economy & History; The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, passed in 1894,…
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Listener: 24 July, 2010 Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; For most of the world’s history, economic activity was determined by population. Inequality between regions did not happen much, because any rise in incomes was checked by a Malthusian expansion of population. But the spectacular 19th-century industrialisation of Europe and North America concentrated economic activity there and…
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A national study of New Zealanders Keywords: Health; Statistics; Published in the Journal of Gambling Issues 24, July 2010, pp.33-53. Authors: En-Yi Judy Lin; Sally Casswell; Brian Easton; Taisia Huckle; Lanuola Asiasiga; Ru Quan You: Centre for Social and Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand Abstract This study provides quantitative measures…
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Paper to the Wairarapa Branch of the NZIIA, July 21 2010. Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; Macroeconomics & Money; Introduction Future historians are likely to identify the topics of this evening’s presentation as the two major economic forces of our times: the rising importance of the Chinese economy and the Global Financial Crisis. My task tonight…
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SOME BLOG COMMENTS The Dim-Post blog, extracted a section from Does the Government Know What it is Doing? (http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/?p=1217). There was a vigorous and – usually intelligent – commentary, to which I – quite out of character – responded. Here are my replies. The full blog is at http://dimpost.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/does-the-government-know-what-its-doing/ Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; Political Economy…
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