BWB Texts: Economic Futures

Paul Dalziel · Caroline Saunders · Shamubeel Eaqub · Max Rashbrooke

Dec 2014 · Bridget Williams Books

About this ebook

Get up-to-speed with some of the biggest challenges facing New Zealand with this bundle of high-profile BWB Texts.

These four works are combined into one easy-to-read e-book, available direct and DRM-free from our website or from international e-book retailers.

Seventy-five years after Labour’s social security reforms of the 1930s, Paul Dalziel and Caroline Saunders argue in Wellbeing Economics it is time for a major shift in New Zealand’s economic perspective.

In Growing Apart, Shamubeel Eaqub highlights the changing economic fortunes of people in different parts of New Zealand – the growing gaps between our regions.

Max Rashbrooke’s The Inequality Debate provides a succinct introduction to income inequality in New Zealand using the latest data.

The meaning of The Piketty Phenomenon for New Zealand is explored by a diverse range of economists and commentators addressing the relevance of Thomas Piketty’s ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’.

BWB Texts are short books on big subjects by great New Zealand writers. Commissioned as short digital-first works, BWB Texts unlock diverse stories, insights and analysis from the best of our past, present and future New Zealand writing.

About the author

Paul Dalziel is Professor of Economics at Lincoln University and Deputy Director of its Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit. He has previously published nine books on New Zealand economic policy, two of which have been translated and published in Japan. He has received two awards for excellence in university teaching and five awards for his research.

Caroline Saunders is Professor of Trade and Environmental Economics at Lincoln University and Director of its Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit. She has published extensively on New Zealand economic issues, for which she received the NZIER Economist of the Year Award in 2007 and was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2009.

Shamubeel Eaqub (CFA) is a Principal Economist at the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research. His focus is in analytical frameworks to aid economic forecasting, commentary and incisive research into topical areas of economics.

Max Rashbrooke is a Wellington journalist and author. He has written for national newspapers and magazines in New Zealand and the UK, including the Guardian, the Herald and the Listener. He was also the 2011 recipient of the Bruce Jesson Award. His current project is Inequality: a New Zealand Crisis, a major book on the rising gap between rich and poor, set down for publication in June 2013.