Blog Archives
Hero worship, Gyles Beckford
A Few Hares to Chase: The Life and Economics of Bill Phillips Alan Bollard Auckland University Press, $40.00 ISBN 9781869408299 The sages have long counselled that you should never meet your heroes. Should that be extended to writing about them?…
Tagged with: Alan Bollard, Auckland University Press, Bill Phillips, Gyles Beckford, Issue 114, Winter 2016
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Bring out your dead, Brian Easton
Crisis: One Central Bank Governor and the Global Financial Collapse Alan Bollard with Sarah Gaitanos Auckland University Press, $29.99, ISBN 9781869404696 I examined carefully the Reserve Bank Bill before Parliament in 1988 to ensure that, come a financial crisis,…
Tagged with: Alan Bollard, Auckland University Press, Brian Easton, Issue 92, Sarah Gaitanos, Summer 2010
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Did the reforms work? Yes and no Paul Dalziel
A Study of Economic Reform: The Case of New Zealand eds Brian Silverstone, Alan Bollard and Ralph Lattimore Elsevier North-Holland, $US145.25, ISBN 0 444 81985 1 Between 14 July 1984 (when the electorate decisively rejected Sir Robert Muldoon’s approach to…
Tagged with: Alan Bollard, Brian Silverstone, Elsevier North-Holland, Issue 30, Paul Dalziel, Ralph Lattimore, Winter 1997
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Economics, Non-fiction, Review
Narrow focus, Brian Easton
Corporatisation and privatisation: New Zealand Ian Duncan and Alan Bollard, Oxford University Press, $29.95 The preface of this book states ‘the work is based originally on an unpublished study of thirteen state enterprises, commissioned by the New Zealand Treasury…
Tagged with: Alan Bollard, Brian Easton, Ian Duncan, Issue 9, Oxford University Press, Winter 1993
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review