- 1. Book Launch Tonight: No Ordinary Deal: Unmasking the Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement
- (Fabian Events)
- ... Unmasking the Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement edited by Jane Kelsey. The launch will give you the opportunity to hear distinguished US speaker Lori Wallach, Director, Public Citizen Global Trade ...
- Created on 09 November 2010
- 2. Colin James - "After Jacinda
- (Uncategorised)
- ... and Trade and Export Growth, Associate Minister of Finance and, until June last year, also Minister of Economic Development – an impossible workload which he somehow carried. The Labour party's deputy leader, ...
- Created on 14 April 2020
- 3. Peter Neilson
- (Speakers)
- Peter Neilson is CEO of the Financial Services Council. He was also for eight years the CEO of the Business Council for Sustainable Development. He is an economist, Labour MP for Miramar (1981-1900) ...
- Created on 25 October 2014
- 4. TPPA Presentations Draw a Large Audience
- (Latest)
- ... than trade, potentially constraining the social and economic policy options of future NZ governments. Although exit provisions may exist, associated costs mean they are unlikely to ever be triggered. Above ...
- Created on 08 December 2012
- 5. Into The Cave of Dreams – Trans Pacific Partnership
- (Newsflash)
- In the latest Werewolf, Gordon Campbel asks 'Is the Trans Pacific Partnership a free trade mirage?' If the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal was a new car you probably wouldn’t buy it, or at least ...
- Created on 03 December 2012
- 6. TPP Out of the Shadows
- (News)
- What they won't tell us and why we should be worried about the Trans-Pacific Partnership. On December 3rd, two of the world's foremost critical voices on international free trade and investment agreements ...
- Created on 16 November 2012
- 7. Pat Booth on the TPPA
- (Latest)
- This was in Auckland's Central Leader yesterday, so it's probably in community newspapers all over the country, probably reaching a large number of people who had no awareness of this issue until now: ...
- Created on 20 September 2012
- 8. Innovation Stifled by Rent-Seekers, Not Weak IP Laws
- (Latest)
- ... is now far more lucrative than innovation that delivers social benefits. The big rewards go to directors and executives of large companies - and financial traders, the ultimate rent-seekers who impose ...
- Created on 31 August 2012
- 9. Charity Auction: Three Original Tom Scott Cartoons from the Inside Child Poverty Documentary!
- (Latest)
- Child Poverty Action Group is auctioning on Trade Me a set of three Tom Scott cartoons, originally drawn for the Inside Child Poverty documentary shown on TV3 last year just before the election. We ...
- Created on 25 August 2012
- 10. How the Right uses Rhetoric to Influence Education Policy
- (Latest)
- ... Fabian seminar in Wellington in April. He described a project he is working on that seeks to examine the way right-wing think tanks, trade groups and lobbyists use language to persuade and shape educational ...
- Created on 10 May 2012
- 11. Gareth Morgan
- (Speakers)
- ... He is a director of Infometrics Limited; he was a director of Trade Me Limited until 2006; and he was a director of the listed company Property For Industry Limited from 1994 - 2008. Gareth has been ...
- Created on 24 June 2011
- 12. Plans for a Productive Economy
- (Fabian Events)
- ... summary of NZ's situation and the factors leading to it, including specific 'market failures'. This led to a frank and disconcerting outline of possible solutions and the trade-offs they entail. His presentation ...
- Created on 01 April 2011
- 13. Public Spending: The Driver of Economic Growth
- (Fabian Events)
- ... 14th February, 6.30pm – 8.00pm, at the Auckland Trades Hall, 147 Great North Rd, Grey Lynn. You can register here. If you know of others who would be interested, please take advantage of the 'Tell a Friend' ...
- Created on 03 February 2011
- 14. Issues in Privatisation – Costs & Benefits
- (Fabian Events)
- ... they did with local electricity network companies whose shares were initially distributed to those who happened at the time to be customers, and inmost other privatisations. Indeed international trade ...
- Created on 01 November 2010
- 15. Reminder - Part Two of Economics for Everyone
- (Fabian Events)
- Part Two of Economics for Everyone seminar with Jim Stanford is on Tuesday 22nd, 5.30-7.30pm at the Auckland Trades Hall. For anyone who missed it and would like to catch up before the second seminar, ...
- Created on 21 June 2010
- 16. Reminder: Economics for Everyone 1 - Auckland
- (Fabian Events)
- Reminder: Economics for Everyone at the Auckland Trades Hall, 147 Great North Rd, Grey Lynn 5:30-7:30, Tuesday 15 June. Hear Jim Stanford on why the economy is too important to be left to economists.
- Created on 15 June 2010
- 17. Economics for Everyone
- (Fabian Events)
- ... to the economists!” The first seminar, 'Understanding the Logic of Capitalism', will be held Tuesday 15th June, 5.30pm – 7.30pm, at the Trades Hall, 147 Great North Rd, Grey Lynn. The second, 'What Went ...
- Created on 24 May 2010
- 18. Reminder - Peter Conway on Taxation Tuesday 4th May
- (Fabian Events)
- ... tax changes. The Auckland lecture will be held Tuesday 4th May, 5.30pm – 7.30pm, at the Trades Hall, 147 Great North Rd, Grey Lynn. You can register on our web site for the Auckland lecture or the Wellington ...
- Created on 03 May 2010
- 19. Reminder- Auckland Fabian Lecture, Tues 23 March
- (Fabian Events)
- ... for over thirty years. He has been an academic, worked in the trade union movement, and was economic advisor to Finance Minister Michael Cullen from late 1999 to mid 2002. He specialises in challenging ...
- Created on 23 March 2010
- 20. Reminder - Wellington Fabian Lecture, Wed 24 March
- (Fabian Events)
- ... and performance for over thirty years. He has been an academic, worked in the trade union movement, and was economic advisor to Finance Minister Michael Cullen from late 1999 to mid 2002. He specialises ...
- Created on 23 March 2010