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On not relying on truthiness, Brian Easton
A Conversation With My Country Alan Duff Penguin Random House, $39.00, ISBN 9780143773269 In 1990, a comet brightened the New Zealand literary scene and society with the publication of Alan Duff’s Once Were Warriors, for it involved both an extraordinary…
Tagged with: Alan Duff, Brian Easton, Issue 127, Penguin Random House, Spring 2019
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Māori, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
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
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
Profiting from health, Brian Easton
Democratic Governance and Health: Hospitals, Politics and Health Policy in New Zealand Miriam J Laugesen and Robin Gauld Otago University Press, $40.00. ISBN 9781877578 274 I have long puzzled over the point of local democracy in the highly centralised state…
Acts of God and government, Brian Easton
The Christchurch Fiasco: The Insurance Aftershock and its Implications for New Zealand and Beyond Sarah Miles Dunmore Publishing, $38.00, ISBN 9781927212035 Given New Zealand’s reputation as The Shaky Isles, together with its accompanying history of deluges, hurricanes, landslips, tsunamis and…
Tagged with: Autumn 2013, Brian Easton, Dunmore Publishing, Issue 101, Sarah Miles
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Problems with experts, Brian Easton
The New Zealand Tax System: New Zealand Taxes in Comparative Perspective Rob Salmond Institute of Policy Studies, $30.00, ISBN 9781877347450 The New Zealand Economy: An Introduction Ralph Lattimore and Shamubeel Eaqub Auckland University Press, $34.99, ISBN 9781869404895 To…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Brian Easton, Institute of Policy Studies, Issue 98, Ralph Lattimore, Rob Salmond, Shamubeel Eaqub, Winter 2012
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Posted in 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
A tale half-told, Brian Easton
Innovation and Independence: The Reserve Bank of New Zealand 1973-2002 John Singleton (with Arthur Grimes, Gary Hawke and Frank Holmes) Auckland University Press (in association with the Ministry of Culture and Heritage), $49.99, ISBN 1869403649 This history of the Reserve…
Tagged with: Arthur Grimes, Auckland University Press, Autumn 2007, Brian Easton, Frank Holmes, Gary Hawke, Issue 77, John Singleton, Ministry of Culture and Heritage
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Intellectual life, Brian Easton
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