The experience drove his quest to understand how this ‘three-and-a-half-decade aberration in our foundational heart and soul, values and politics’ came about and – as we face another period of unemployment, dislocation and uncertainty – how we can stop it from repeating.
No dry economic text, RESET is a sweeping account that connects New Zealand’s geology and landscape, human migrations, political and social history, and the deep-seated values that emerged – values that, according to Morgan, we urgently need to restore. His solutions are equally sweeping and challenge us to think beyond self-maximizing business as usual to regain our common purpose.
Variously a mechanical fitter tradesman, resource management policy analyst, lecturer, teacher and seaman, John Morgan has had a lifelong interest in natural and social history and international current affairs. Now retired, he lives by the coast in a small North Island town.