BWB texts : economic futures / Paul Dalziel [and three others] ; digital development by Tom Rennie and Barbara Graham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dalziel, Paul, author.

Contributor:

Rennie, Tom, contributor.

Graham, Barbara, contributor.

Series:

BWB Texts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quality of life--New Zealand.

Quality of life.

New Zealand--Economic policy.

New Zealand.

New Zealand--Social policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Place of Publication:

Wellington, New Zealand : BWB Bundles, 2014.

Summary:

Get up-to-speed with some of the biggest challenges facing New Zealand with this bundle of high-profile BWB Texts by Paul Dalziel & Caroline Saunders, Shamubeel Eaqub, Max Rashbrooke, and leading New Zealand economists and commentators.

Contents:

Contents; Wellbeing Economics; Preface; 1 Wellbeing Economics; Wellbeing Economics; The Capabilities Approach of Amartya Sen; Time-Use Choices and Market Production; Value-Added Activities and the Structure of the Book; 2 Leading Lives We Have Reason to Value; The Time Use Survey; Housing and Wellbeing; Childcare and Wellbeing; Cultural Capital; 3 Living Well in Communities; Community Organisations and Wellbeing; Social Capital and Wellbeing; Local Government and Wellbeing; Natural Capital and Wellbeing; Co-production of Local Government Services; 4 Value through Enterprise and Skills

Market Production and WellbeingPhysical Capital and Wellbeing; Market Employment and Wellbeing; Labour Market Skills and Wellbeing; Human Capital and Wellbeing; 5 Public Service to Expand Capabilities; Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Wellbeing; Taxation and Wellbeing; Market Regulation and Wellbeing; Equity and Wellbeing ; Infrastructure and Wellbeing; The Public Service and Wellbeing; 6 Future Directions for New Zealand; A Wellbeing Example; Value-Added Activities; Skills and Education; The Living Standards Framework and Better Public Services; From Welfare State to Wellbeing State

Notes and Further ReadingChapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; About the Authors; Growing Apart; Introduction; 1 Many Nations Beneath the Surface; Different Regional Economies; Regional Specialisations; Economic Interconnections; Differing Performance; Inequality, Loss of Trust and Poverty; Secular versus Local Factors; 2 Forces Beyond Our Control; Technology and Accelerating Change; Unstoppable Urbanisation; Globalisation and Its Discontents; Ageing Fast; 3 Consequences of Change; A Growing Creative Class; Educated and Connected; The Provincial Trap

4 Voting with Their FeetLeaving, Ageing and Arriving; Reversal of Decline Is Possible; 5 Call to Action; Hard Questions; No Easy Solutions; Agree on the Problem and the Goal; Gather Evidence; Develop a Strategy; Collaboration; Review and Refine; Growing Together; Notes and Further Reading; Acknowledgements; About the Author; The Inequality Debate; Introduction; 1 Why Inequality Matters; DEFINING INEQUALITY; UNEQUAL IMPACTS; BUT WHY DO LOW INCOMES MATTER?; WHY INEQUALITY - WHY NOT JUST POVERTY?; WHAT ABOUT SOCIAL MOBILITY?; RIGHTFUL REWARD?; CAN'T ECONOMIC GROWTH SOLVE THIS?

WHY INEQUALITY MATTERSDysfunction: how do unequal societies fail?; Division: how does inequality break down social cohesion?; Stagnation: how does inequality weaken growth?; 2 Inequality and New Zealand; WHO EARNS WHAT?; WHO OWNS WHAT?; MORE UNEQUAL THAN MOST; WHAT WE DON'T MEASURE; NEW ZEALAND EQUALITY - TRUTH AND MYTH; A TURNING TIDE; THE GREAT DIVERGENCE; GOING NOWHERE; THE STRUGGLING MIDDLE; UP, UP AND AWAY; ACCEPTING THE GREAT DIVIDE?; THE CHALLENGE NOW; Glossary; Acknowledgements; About the Author; The Piketty Phenomenon; Introduction; About the Authors

Has Capital in the Twenty-First Century Changed Anything?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed January 12, 2015).

ISBN:

1-927277-99-X