Chapter 3 of New Zealand, New Welfare, edited by N. Lunt, M. O’Brien & R. Stephens. (Cenage Learning, 2007) Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; Labour Studies; Social Policy; In March 1952, just two men were on the Department of Social Security’s unemployment benefit. The rules of entitlement partly determine the numbers, but those registered…
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This note was prepared for some colleagues. Keywords: Distributional Economics; Growth & Innovation; Th phrase ‘hollowing out’ is often used to cover a multitude of poorly thought through ideas which have lots of rhetoric but perhaps not much intellectual content. Here I am going to try to give the notion some analytical rigour…
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Rising food prices look set to continue. Listener: 17 November, 2007. Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; The boom in dairy product prices is a consequence partly of overseas drought and partly of Americans using their maize to make biofuels, leaving less for their cows. The same condition is depressing the price of…
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The Weekend Herald of November 10, 2007 devoted three pages, to a Newsweek article which was strong on anecdote and opinion and weak on analysis and facts. I submitted the following note. They took a fortnight to tell me they had more important things to deal with. Keywords: Distributional Economics; Globalisation & Trade; …
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Visit to the Marshall Islands. Listener: 20 October, 2007. Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; The Marshall Islands are due north of New Zealand – about eight hours’ flying time on an RNZAF 757. I was there recently on the annual Pacific Mission led by Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters, who takes a team…
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Presented to the Stout Research Centre ‘Research Roundup’ 17 October 2007 Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; Growth & Innovation; History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy; Invited to contribute to this Stout Centre Research Roundup, I was torn between telling you about the project I am working on, and the one which I have just…
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Why Doesn’t Our Biggest City Have A More Thriving Cultural Life? Listener: 8 September, 2007. Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; Literature and Culture; Asked the difference between Auckland and yoghurt, Wellingtonians are likely to say that the culture is alive in yoghurt. Saying that Wellington has more classical music, more professional theatre and,…
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Limit Your Carbon Emissions for Honourable Reasons, But Don’t Expect the World to Follow. Listener: 11 August, 2007. Keywords: Environment & Resources; Globalisation & Trade; It will not be easy for the world to solve the threat of global warming. It requires collective action, but there is no supranational political entity to…
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One small voyage for a ship, one giant leap for New Zealand. Listener: 2 June 2007. Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; Growth & Innovation; Political Economy & History; This month, 125 years ago in 1882, the Dunedin docked at the Port of London with a cargo of meat from New Zealand that sold…
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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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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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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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Paper to Labour Employment and Work Conference 12, Wednesday 15 November. Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; Labour Studies; Aging is a global phenomenon, that is it exists in may parts of the globe. This paper argues it is also a globalisation phenomenon, that is it involves the increasing interaction between national and regional economies…
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The Rugby World Cup presents a challenge to Auckland’s governance. Listener: 7 October, 2006. Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; Growth & Innovation; The Auckland economy has been performing badly over the past few decades, partly because of the policies of the 1980s and 1990s, partly because of the failure to build adequate infrastructure. But the region’s…
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The Doha round is dead. But NZ’s bilateral trade deals are no substitute for global ones. Listener: 26 August, 2006. Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; The Doha round on trade liberalisation is suspended “indefinitely”. More colourfully, India’s Commerce Minister Kamal Nath said that the round, though not dead, “is between intensive care and the crematorium”. Trade…
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Listener 3 June 2006.
Keywords: Environment & Resources; Political Economy & History;
The last time I talked with Rod Donald was shortly after the 2005 election, walking along Lambton Quay. Rod was very disappointed with the election outcome, for his Green Party lost voter share, and hence seats. He thought that the scurrilous anti-Green election pamphlet did a lot of damage. I said that anyone who thought it valid was too ignorant to vote Green, although it damaged the Greens when the new government was being formed.
Speech to the Auckland University of Technology Residential Course on Regional Development, Tatum Park, Levin, May 30. The author is an adjunct professor of the Institute for Public Policy at AUT.
Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; Growth & Innovation;
Tonight I am going to talk about what New Zealand’s Economic Transformation might look like, and some of the things which need to happen in order to accomplish it. However, I need to begin with two caveats.
Presentation to a Leadership New Zealand seminar, 18 May 2006.
Keywords: Globalisation & Trade; Governance;
I am working on a book, The Globalisation of Nations, sponsored by the Marsden Fund. As the title suggests I am concerned with both the process of globalisation and how that affects the nation-state. Today I begin by giving a brief overview of the economics of globalisation, but my main focus will be about its impact on the nation-state.
Shown at the 2006 Wellington Human Rights Film Festival. Comments while on a panel which followed the film.
Keywords: Globalisation & Trade;
While the intended messages of the film are obvious enough, I want to comment on a few more subtle issues.
Listener: 6 May, 2006.
Keywords: Globalisation & Trade;
In November 2001, trade ministers in Doha in the Arabian-Persian Gulf declared the next trade negotiations round to be a “development round”, aiming to enable the poor countries to experience “growth, development and prosperity”. But there were conflicting reasons for their vision.