New Zealand
Subtitle: a nation that can work again
By: edited by Mike Moore.
Contributors: Moore, Mike, 1949-; Waipuna Seminar (1993 : Auckland, N.Z.)
Publisher: MMSC Ltd.; Distributed by GP Publications
Published: 1993
Place of publication: [Auckland, N.Z.]; Wellington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: New Zealand -- Economic policy -- Congresses.; New Zealand -- Foreign economic relations -- Congresses.
Description: "Mike Moore, the Leader of the Opposition, convened the innovative, first of its kind Waipuna Seminar in early April 1993 because, for far too long, New Zealand has suffered a poverty of intellectual ideas and this has given free reign to the extreme monetarist doctrines of Ruth Richardson and others. As Mike Moore says in his introduction "We are in the 1990s, not the 1980s. Reaganomics and Thatcherism are dead. Unfortunately, though, much of the economic debate in New Zealand is still locked into last decade's sterile rhetoric. Its time for the monetarists to be challenged head on at the highest possible level. That was the purpose of the Waipuna seminar and that is the purpose of this book which include the edited transcripts of the contributions to the seminar of interntional and New Zealand opinion leaders ..."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Proceedings of the Waipuna Seminar, held in Auckland on April 2-3, 1993.