Let’s Hear It For The Macro Economy
The decisions announced last week by Fisher and Paykel and the ANZ Bank to relocate parts of their operations overseas grabbed the headlines and sent a shock wave through New Zealand industry. What may...
View ArticleLearning the Lessons
As the world-wide recession seems to be bottoming out, one question is being asked with increasing frequency and urgency. Have we learnt the lessons so that it will not happen again? The answer – at...
View ArticleMacro Economic Policy Is What Counts
As we begin the New Year with the hope of climbing out of recession, we are in danger of overlooking – or misunderstanding – one of the lessons we should have learnt from the global downturn. What the...
View ArticleThe Reserve Bank Governor
Alan Bollard is a big man – well over six feet [around 1.9 m?] tall – but even his shoulders are not broad enough to bear the burdens placed on them. To point this out is not so much to criticise the...
View ArticleLabour Should Challenge Macro-economic Policy
Stewart Wood in this week’s Guardian is right to argue that the paradoxical popular support for George Osborne’s manifestly failing policies for recovery should not mean that Labour must abandon its...
View ArticleAn Economic Policy for a Post-Neo-Liberal World
Alert: this article is 5000 words long AN ECONOMIC POLICY FOR A POST-NEO-LIBERAL WORLD Economic Policy Is Not A “No-Go” Area The global financial crisis, when it broke in 2008, seemed likely to mark a...
View ArticlePlaying the Neo-Liberals’ Game
The advice offered by some of its leading thinkers that Labour should switch the focus away from the role of central government and towards a greater devolution of power to the regions and communities...
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