The St Andrew’s Winter Seminar, “Paradise Lost – Paradise Restored?’ is happening on Friday June 22nd and Saturday June 23rd 2018 at St Andrews on the Terrace. Registration form and information The theme is loosely structured around the themes from The Greening of Christianity by the trust’s former theologian and lecturer Rev. Professor Sir Lloyd […]
Presentation to the Foreign Affairs and Trade Select Committee on the CPTPA
Notes related to presentation made on 9 May Thank you for the opportunity to present my submission on the CPTPA. My comments today support my submission. I think that the National Interest Analysis (NIA) is inadequate. The CPTPA NIA does not examine the impacts of risk to a government that decides to take democratic action. […]
The Royal Commission on Social Policy’s April Report 30 years on
Introduction. The scale of the consultation. The push for early publication. The long term impact. Explanation of the layout of the report. Volume I Volume II Volume 3 parts 1 & 2 Volume IV Appendix 1 Equating Māori and Pākehā values. The full text of the Royal Commission on Social Policy and link to the […]
Paradise Lost – Paradise regained
Hold the date: Friday June 22nd and Saturday June 23rd 2018 at St Andrews on the Terrace. In developing the topic for this weekend we have visited the themes around the Winter Soltice, Matariki and the lecture series and subsequent publication of “The Greening of Christianity” by the Rev. Professor Sir Lloyd Geering. In these […]
Can’t get no satisfaction from the NZ Herald
Just feeling failed by the NZ Herald and its ability to call out supposed lies with impunity. Here is the correspondence in relation to a recent complaint. Most unsatisfactory but a waste of time to go on or not? Any advice? The Herald’s responses to my email are in red. I note that Mike Hosking […]
Participate in a submission to the Tax Working Group
Would you like to be part of the current tax policy debate without needing to know the difference between Pigou and Tobin? Think base erosion sounds like something you do to protect your floors? News Website Scoop Media and Public Engagement Projects (PEP) invite you to share your issues, ideas and perspectives on the NZ […]
Press complaint about NZ Herald article “How Labour just lost the 2020 election”
This seemed like a worthwhile way to spend an hour or so. Will the NZ Herald be willing to correct a completely inaccurate article? ( Not that this kind of response wouldn’t be legitimate on any day of the week for a dozen or more articles with similarly careless and inaccurate reporting – but this […]
Book Review: National Enterprise – The development of the public corporation Ernest Davies Gollancz 1946
Managing services and infrastructure for the public good. The recent scandal with FaceBook and Cambridge Analytica has shown what happens when the controllers of capital are able to decide how things should run to benefit them. Economic dominance and first mover advantage coupled with a lack of regulation has captured the public’s data and used […]
Was the China FTA a positive for New Zealand?
As the NZ government is considering signing up to the TPPA next year it might be worth looking at the effects of trade deals already in place. Although the Australian Closer Economic Relationship (CER) agreement pre-dates the 10 year old China FTA has wrought the greatest recent change. We are advised by both major political […]
33 Theses for an economics reformation
On 12 December 2017, Rethinking Economics and the New Weather Institute published ’33 Theses for an Economics Reformation’ to mark 500 years since the Catholic Reformation. The Theses, which were endorsed by students and economists and fixed with blutack 🙂 to the doors of the London School of Economics, are reproduced below. The action was taken as the […]
The New Zealanders involved in Brexit
Usually New Zealand is proud to own its overseas sons & daughters – sports people, business leaders, arts and culture sector successes and even one-time politicians – with endless media coverage, and the news arising from the visit last week of the UK’s Trade Secretary Liam Fox to New Zealand for trade talks for a […]
TPP / CPTPP. Will consultation be better than the TPP National Interest analysis?
Trade Minister David Parker has taken up the opportunity to do what the Trade Ministers of TPPA countries agreed to at the APEC conference and offered New Zealanders the opportunity for a consultation and better understanding on the TPPA prior to it being signed. He has said it is unlikely this will affect the outcome […]
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