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New Zealand Economics
(29k)
Foreign Investment:
The New Zealand Experience edited by Peter Enderwick. Published by Dunmore
Press. ISBN 0864693125. Recommended
retail
price
$28.
Foreign direct investment is of major interest for both New Zealand and for the
world economy. Appreciation of the importance of foreign direct investment and
its principal medium, the multinational enterprise, presupposes an understanding
of the dynamic nature of the world economy and the changing role that foreign
investment plays within this evolving system. While it has a long history, the
period since 1945 has witnessed a huge growth in the magnitude and spread of foreign
investment , and international business activity more generally.
Foreign direct investment has played a significant role in the recent economic
restructuring of the New Zealand economy. This volume offers a critical analysis
of both the costs and benefits of such investment and a comprehensive evaluation
of the likely impacts. It provides an indispensable source of analysis and information
for anyone interested in the future of the New Zealand economy and society.
Includes a foreword by Don Brash, the Governor of New Zealand’s Reserve Bank.
Soft cover, 290 pages.
(34k)
New Zealand
Economy, The: Issues & Policies edited by Stuart Birks & Srikanta Chatterjee.
Published by Dunmore Press. ISBN 0864692978. Recommended
retail price $36.
This book addresses issues and policies relating to the major sectors of the
New Zealand economy. In its eighteen chapters -–prepared by specialist contributors – the
book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the economy. The subject
matter is presented in a fashion which makes it accessible to the interested
non-specialist, while maintaining the degree of rigor necessary for those with
some training in economic theory. This third edition has the added feature of
three introductory chapters covering basic microeconomic and macroeconomic principles,
thus making it suitable as a stand-along test for introductory courses on the
New Zealand economy. Soft cover, 356 pages.
(25k)
Only Their Purpose
is Mad: The Money Men Take Over NZ by Bruce Jesson. Publsihed by Dunmore
Press. ISBN 0864693435. Recommended
retail
price
$18.
New Zealand’s economy was once dominated by people who made things; it is now
dominated by people who finance things. Bruce Jesson argues that New Zealand has
been transformed, since 1984, by the culture of finance, and that New Zealand’s
society and economy are now subject to irrational, speculative forces (a view
with which Paddy wholeheartedly concurs).
In 1991, Bruce Jesson was elected to the Auckland Regional Council, and was chair
of the Auckland Regional Services Trust between 1992 and 1995. He is author of
Behind the Mirror Glass and Fragments of Labour, and co-author of
Revival of the Right. He is co-editor of Political Review. Soft cover,
227 pages.
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