Taking New Zealand Seriously: the Economics of Decency Tim Hazledine HarperCollins $24.95 ISBN 1 86950283 3 The Wellington launch of Taking New Zealand Seriously coincided with the 1998 conference of the New Zealand Economists’ Association. The contrast is striking. Few…
A World without Welfare. New Zealand‘s Colonial Experiment David Thomson Auckland University Press with Bridget Williams Books $39.95 ISBN 1 86940 199 9 A Civilised Community. A History of Social Security in New Zealand Margaret McClure Auckland University Press with…
Seeing You Asked Vincent O’Sullivan Victoria University Press $19.95 ISBN 0 86473352 6 Seeing You Asked is Vincent O’Sullivan’s tenth volume of new poetry, the first since The Pilate Tapes of 1986. In The Pilate Tapes and before that in…
Cookhouse Paula Green Auckland University Press, $19.95 ISBN 1 86940181 6 Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars Kate Camp Victoria University Press, $1 9.95 ISBN 0 86473349 6 Sleeper John Dickson Auckland University Press, $19.95 ISBN 1 86940187 5 So, its…
Nothing to Declare Harry Ricketts HeadworX Publishers, $19.95 ISBN 0 47305141 9 “Nothing to declare”, this title murmurs in the polite way that shows we’ve obeyed Customs rules and now just want to get on with our lives. But like…
The Demon Profession Michael Laws HarperCollins, $29.95 ISBN 1 869502 57 4 Winston Peters emerged from obscurity in the 1980s on the strength of attacks on Maori social services organisations like Maccess. His surge in 1996 was on the backs…
Stand and Deliver Ian Johnstone Cape Catley, $29.95 ISBN 0 90856170 9 A story is doing the rounds that a producer recently proposed a documentary on poverty to one of our television networks. He/she wanted to record the daily struggles…
Thirty Pieces of Silver: A big New Zealand law firm and its concept of professional responsibility viewed through its words, its works and its documents Anthony Molloy QC Howling at the Moon Productions, $34.95 ISBN 0 958371 71 7 In…