Reminder – Tonight – Max Rashbrooke – Inequality in New Zealand: why don’t we talk more about wealth?

‘Occupy said the problem was the 1% in control. Now they are being reduced to the 0.1% who have the real control. We need to find a way out of this capture or we’ll all go down with that last ton of coal’

These are not good times for too many people. Inequality is a destructive feature of the way we live in New Zealand. Poverty has become a topic of concern and renewed conversations. We were keen recently to debate the work of Wilkinson and Pickett and have made Max Rashbrooke’s book on the New Zealand setting a best seller. The narrative for orthodox economic thinking is changing. Now Thomas Picketty has made wealth inequality an extension of this concern. His research spells out how the concentration of wealth in the hands of so few people will lead to the death of production and a failure of capitalism. See this page and search the links included there.

It will help with our planning if you register here.

Tuesday 1 July 6.30pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 3 (Level ‘0’, Room 260-057)

Owen Glen Building, University of Auckland.

Parking available under the OGB building.

Recent Publications

We have recently published two new ebooks. You can download

• Flawed theory-failed practice: Light-handed Regulation in New Zealand; and
• Rethinking the State Sector Act

​in a variety of formats from our Publications page.

Recent Presentations

Recordings of Robert Howell’s ‘Economy for a Resilient World’ presentations are available here.

A recording of the ARD Fairburn seminar is here.

An audio recording of David Grant’s ‘Mighty Totara’ book launch is available here.

Also see our Publications page for copies of these recent presentations:

• Single Buyer Model for Electricity – Geoff Bertram
• Myths, Politicians & Money – Bryan Gould
• Narratives for Auckland
• Democracy & Diversity
• Asset Values & Regulation
• Reducing Inequality with UBI & Asset Tax
• Light-handed regulation of the energy sectors
• Light-handed Regulation
• and much more…

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