Keith Rankin
is a political economist and economy historian |
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Tuesday, 30 |
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Many forms of protectionist policies enhance the world economy and can be correctly labeled as "cosmopolitan" since they may, for example, decrease the opportunities to profit from global financial speculation, increase wages and employment in each nation, and reduce the likelihood (and hence the cost to any nation and to all nations) of business failure. Cosmopolitan protection can take the world economy from a distant "third-best" (which is the usual outcome of free trade) to a close "second-best". That's as good as it gets in the real world. |
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Sunday, 28 |
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An efficient cosmopolitan economy of the future needs more international public goods, without any erosion of national public goods. |
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Friday, 26 |
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Against the Tide; an Intellectual History of Free Trade says: "Smith created such a compelling and complete case for free trade that commercial policy could no longer be seriously discussed without contending with his views.... Smith's case for free trade was based on its being in the national economic interest, not on some cosmopolitan ideal as he was later accused of by Friedrich List and others." |
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Wednesday, 24 |
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Net Income = Gross Earnings less Income Tax plus UBI plus Benefit, where the value of the "benefit" is typically but not always zero. The three new reasons for introducing a UBI in New Zealand are:
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Monday, 22 |
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To look at the broad picture, take 1981-1996:
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Friday, 19 |
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When a first child is born, the amount of AS payable typically falls. This is not always the case because the maximum AS rises when a first child is born. Considering the same family but without children, their AS would be $52.32 if they live in Wanganui, and $70.12 if they live in Wellington or Auckland. Thus the family, if they live in Wellington, have their AS cut by $8.40 per week when they have their first child. |
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Wednesday, 17 |
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The Beehive proposal has two important virtues. First, the implementation of the plan makes it more rather than less likely that "social wage" expenditure will be increased. And second, it is a proposal that has the potential to spark a constructive debate on the true meaning of "fiscal responsibility". |
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Monday, 15 |
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Economic sovereignty traditionally exists at a national level. It did in Smith's time, as it did throughout the "Pax Britannica" of the nineteenth century and the "Pax Americana" of the midtwentieth century. It also exists at an international level. Cosmopolitan political economy exists where the economic relations between nations and the citizens of different nations are regulated by liberal means to maximise the wellbeing of humankind. |
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Wednesday, 10 |
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