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Articulating an alternative, Julienne Molineaux
Government for the Public Good: The Surprising Science of Large-scale Collective Action Max Rashbrooke Bridget Williams Books, $50.00, ISBN 9781988545080 This is an optimistic book that aims to re-set the narrative on collective action and, in particular, how we discuss…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Issue 126, Julienne Molineaux, Max Rashbrooke, Winter 2019
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
The Māori economy, old and new, Gyles Beckford
Heke Tangata: Māori in Markets and Cities Brian Easton for Te Whanau o Waipareira Oratia Books, $30.00, ISBN 9780947506438 In late 1984, a small group of Māori politicians, public servants and their helpers, invented an iwi to welcome hundreds of…
Tagged with: Brian Easton, Gyles Beckford, Issue 124, Oratia Books, Summer 2018
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review
Dangerous confusion, Tim Hazledine
The Fire Economy: New Zealand’s Reckoning Jane Kelsey Bridget Williams Books, $50.00, ISBN 9781927247839 “Imagine,” said the great physicist Richard Feynman, “how much harder physics would be if electrons had emotions!” Harder still, if not just emotions but consciousness, memory…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Issue 112, Jane Kelsey, Summer 2015, Tim Hazledine
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review
The undemocratic free market, Bryan Gould
Beyond the Free Market: Rebuilding a Just Society in New Zealand David Cooke, Claire Hill, Pat Baskett and Ruth Irwin (eds) Dunmore Press, $30.00, ISBN 9711927212189 In the opening essay of this impressive collection, Nicky Hager identifies 1993 as the…
Tagged with: Bryan Gould, Claire Hill, David Cooke, Dunmore Press, Issue 110, Pat Baskett, Ruth Irwin, Winter 2015
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review
Lifting the lid, Colin Peacock
Dirty Politics: How Attack Politics is Poisoning New Zealand’s Political Environment Nicky Hager Craig Potton Publishing, $35.00, ISBN 9781927213360 The Catch: How Fishing Companies Reinvented Slavery and Plunder the Oceans Michael Field Awa Press, $40.00, ISBN 9781927249024 “Laws are…
Tagged with: Autumn 2015, Awa Press, Colin Peacock, Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 109, Michael Field, Nicky Hager
Posted in Economics, Media, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Economics, Media, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Town and country, Brian Easton
Growing Apart: Regional Prosperity in New Zealand Shamubeel Eaqub Bridget Williams Books, $15.00, ISBN 9781927277614 When the Farm Gates Opened: The Impact of Rogernomics on Rural New Zealand Neal Wallace Otago University Press, $30.00, ISBN 9781877578724 In the last hundred…
Tagged with: Autumn 2015, Brian Easton, Bridget Williams Books, Issue 109, Neal Wallace, Otago University Press, Shamubeel Eaqub
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review
Demolishing the doctrinaire delusion, Marilyn Waring
Reclaiming The Future: New Zealand and the Global Economy Jane Kelsey Bridget Williams Books, $39.95, ISBN 1 877 242 012 Reclaiming the Future is Jane Kelsey’s fourth book in a decade of prolific publication: A Question of Honour in 1990,…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Issue 43, Jane Kelsey, Marilyn Waring
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction
An eye on the ball, Graham Mourie
Rights of Passage: Beyond the New Zealand Identity Crisis Chris Laidlaw Hodder Moa Beckett, $29.95, ISBN 1 86958 723 5 Chris Laidlaw was a quality All Black in the late 1960s, who achieved prominence by firing a Parthian shot at…
Tagged with: Chris Laidlaw, Graham Mourie, Hodder Moa Beckett, Issue 42
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review
The gutting of New Zealand, Paul Dalziel
Only Their Purpose is Mad Bruce Jesson Dunmore Press, $27.95, ISBN 0 86469 343 5 Written during the horror of the early 1940s, Karl Polanyi’s famous book The Great Transformation sought to explain why nearly 100 years of relative liberalism…
Tagged with: Bruce Jesson, Dunmore Press, Issue 40, Paul Dalziel
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review
From visionaries to pygmies, Colin James
Posted in Comment, Economics, Essays