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There's no such thing as "The economy": Essays on capitalist value
Chambers, Samuel Allen - 2018
ethics. But if economic forces establish, transform, and maintain relations of value then it proves impossible to separate …
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Free economy! On 3628800 alternatives of and to capitalism
Roth, Steffen - In: Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics 27 (2015) 2, pp. 107-128
to capitalism and alternative forms of capitalism is not in the on-going problematization of the dominance of the … to draw in order to be at all able to observe capitalism. Answering this question, we show that capitalism is a form that … capitalism and alternative capitalisms calls for a stronger focus on the non-economic function systems. Finally, we present an …
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Making it work: The mixed embeddedness of immigrant entrepreneurs in New Zealand
Cain, Trudie; Spoonley, Paul - 2013
In seeking economic immigrants, especially those who are skilled, entrepreneurial and with capital to invest, a settler country such as New Zealand has assumed that national and city labour markets/economies will gain by adding to the human capital pool as well as creating new 'economic'...
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Regional economic integration and multilateralism: The case of the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand FTA and the Malaysia-New Zealand FTA
Vitalis, Vangelis - 2015
Regional economic integration is back in vogue following the "stumble" in the Doha Round in July 2008. Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) are driving this trend in Asia and the Pacific as well as in Central and South America, and the sheer volume of PTAs is striking. In the 1990s there were...
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Regional Business Cycles in New Zealand: Do they exist? What might drive them?
Hall, Viv. B; John, McDermott C. - 2004
We use National Bank of New Zealand Regional Economic Activity data, to identify and characterise classical business cycle turning points, for New Zealand’s 14 regions and aggregate New Zealand activity. Using Concordance statistic measures, logistic model and GMM estimation methods,...
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Homeownership and social capital in New Zealand
Roskruge, Matthew James; Grimes, Arthur; McCann, Philip; … - 2010
Does an individual's housing situation affect community social capital and influence regional development through this channel? A body of literature which followed the seminal work of DiPasquale and Glaeser suggests that homeownership is positively related to social capital formation due to both...
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Economic liberalisation and the mobility of minority groups: Evidence from Māori in New Zealand
Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - In: IZA Journal of Migration 5 (2016) 4, pp. 1-18
Between 1984 and 1993, New Zealand undertook comprehensive market-oriented economic reforms. In this paper, we use census data to examine how the internal mobility of M¯aori compares to that of Europeans in New Zealand in the period after these reforms. It is often suggested that M¯aori are...
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Pride and the city
Morrison, Philip S. - In: REGION 3 (2016) 2, pp. 103-124
Urban pride is an individual and collective response to living in a given city. Unlike other emotions such as life satisfaction or happiness with which it is weakly positively correlated, pride involves stake holding; to be proud of something requires having an investment in its success...
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You Drink, You Drive, You Die? The Dynamics of Youth Risk Taking in Response to a Change in the Legal Drinking Age
Boes, Stefan; Stillman, Steven - 2017
This paper exploits the reduction in the legal drinking age in New Zealand from 20 to 18 to study the dynamics of youth risk taking. Using administrative data on the universe of road accidents over a fifteen year period spanning the law change, we undertake three complimentary analyses to...
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International Migration and the Distribution of Income in New Zealand Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Areas
Alimi, Omoniyi; Maré, David C.; Poot, Jacques - 2018
Since the 1980s, income inequality in New Zealand has been a growing concern - particularly in metropolitan areas. At the same time, the encouragement of permanent and temporary immigration has led to the foreign-born accounting for a growing share of the population; this is disproportionally so...
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