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Looking forward, Tim Hazledine
The Big Questions: What is New Zealand’s Future? Various authors Penguin Random House, $38.00 ISBN 9780143772378 I’ve been worrying about Trump. Not the man – a lost cause, that – but the movement: Trumpism – the apparently bigoted, intolerant, resentful…
Tagged with: Issue 124, Penguin Random House, Summer 2018, Tim Hazledine
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
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 inequality divide, Tim Hazledine
Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis Max Rashbrooke (ed) Bridget Williams Books, $40.00, ISBN 9781927131510 Judgements of All Kinds: Economic Policy-Making in New Zealand 1945-1984 Jim McAloon Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9780864738974 Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis is more than…
Tagged with: Bridget Williams Books, Issue 104, Jim McAloon, Max Rashbrooke, Summer 2013, Tim Hazledine, Victoria University Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review, Sociology
Doing our fair share, Tim Hazledine
The Carbon Challenge: New Zealand’s Emissions Trading Scheme Geoff Bertram and Simon Terry Bridget Williams Books, $39.99, ISBN 9781877242465 You will remember Pascal’s Wager. Blaise Pascal (1623-62) was a French mathematical prodigy and philosopher who suggested that even if…
Tagged with: Autumn 2011, Bridget Williams Books, Geoff Bertram, Issue 93, Simon Terry, Tim Hazledine
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Natural History, Non-fiction, Review
More management, less education, Tim Hazledine
Crisis of Identity? The Mission and Management of Universities in New Zealand Wilf Malcolm and Nicholas Tarling Dunmore Press, $39.95, ISBN 9781877399275 Clark Kerr, a great president of the University of California at Berkeley, once defined the university as “a…
Tagged with: Autumn 2008, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Issue 81, Nicholas Tarling, Tim Hazledine, Wilf Malcolm
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Review
Rethinking ourselves, Tim Hazledine
Speaking Truth to Power: Public Intellectuals Rethink New Zealand Laurence Simmons (ed) Auckland University Press, $45.00, ISBN 9781869403799 I was thrilled to be asked to review this book. You see, I am a bit of a public intellectual myself, yet…
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Issue 79, Laurence Simmons, Spring 2007, Tim Hazledine
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Crack in the consensus, Tim Hazledine
The Democracy Sham: How Globalisation Devalues Your Vote Bryan Gould Craig Potton Publishing, $29.99, ISBN 1877333506 “Nobody told us we could do that!” So said the Fabian Sidney Webb in 1931 when the new National government of which he was…
Tagged with: Autumn 2007, Bryan Gould, Craig Potton Publishing, Issue 77, Tim Hazledine
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Absolutely positive it’s dead? Tim Hazledine
Muldoon Revisited ed Margaret Clark Dunmore Press, $39.95, ISBN 0864694652 What were you doing the day Robert Muldoon died? I was in Auckland, very recently returned to this country after 20 years overseas. I watched the coverage of the death…
Tagged with: Autumn 2004, Dunmore Press, Dunmore Publishing, Issue 65, Margaret Clark, Tim Hazledine
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Biography, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
When Moore isn’t less, Tim Hazledine
A World Without Walls: Freedom, Development, Free Trade and Global Governance Mike Moore Cambridge University Press, $75, ISBN 0521827019 The cover of Mike Moore’s new book about his three years as director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO) shows a…
Tagged with: Cambridge University Press, Issue 62, Mike Moore, Tim Hazledine, Winter 2003
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
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Slow readers, Tim Hazledine
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