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Myths debunked, hidden influences revealed: a lifetime of economic insights.
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Not in Narrow Seas

The Economic History of Aotearoa New Zealand

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    688 pages

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    13 May 2020

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Summary

Economist Brian Easton throws new light on some cherished national myths. He argues that Britain’s entry into the EEC was not the major turning point that many assume; of much more lasting importance was the permanent collapse of wool prices in 1966. He asks how far it is true that New Zealand is an egalitarian country where ‘Jack’s as good as his master’. He offers the most extensive investigation yet of the Rogernomics revolution of the 1980s and early 1990s, and shows that governments of l…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781776563043
ISBN-10:1776563042
Author:Brian Easton
Publisher:Victoria University Press
Imprint:Victoria University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:688
Release Date:13 May 2020
Weight:1.20kg
Dimensions:170mm x 240mm
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Not in Narrow Seas by Brian Easton - ISBN: 9781776563043
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About The Author

Brian Easton

Dr Brian Easton is a leading independent scholar and commentator on contemporary New Zealand with skills in economics, social statistics, public policy and history. He has researched and written in a wide range of areas vital to an understanding of current issues, introducing frameworks which are foundational in contemporary public discussion and thinking.

Brian has written over 30 books and monographs, including The Commercialisation of New Zealand, In Stormy Seas: The Post-war New Zealand Economy, The Whimpering of the State: Policy after MMP, The Nationbuilders, Globalisation and the Wealth of Nations and Heke Tangata: Maori in Markets and Cities. Between 1978 and 2014 he wrote around 900 columns for the New Zealand Listener and since 2014, 300 columns for the Pundit blog, as well as appearing with other media.

A former Director of the NZ Institute of Economic Research, Brian has held teaching positions and research fellowships in various overseas and New Zealand universities. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a Distinguished Fellow of the New Zealand Economics Association and was NZIER-NBR Economist of the Year in 2009. Brian holds honorary positions in six universities including an adjunct professorship at Auckland University of Technology and a fellowship at the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies.

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