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Girol Karacaoglu suggests we need to move away from a price (interest-rate) centred monetary policy implementation regime and we need to control the growth of the aggregate balance sheet of the banking system

Academics fume as the University moves to close beloved institute after fight with donors

GDP measures economic growth, but what measures happiness? This quick and compelling animated explainer takes economics back to the drawing board.

This year, economists and pundits filled us in on millionaires who want to pay more tax, the power of the 'nudge' and the fiction of money.

Scoop Review of Books provides New Zealand reviews of Books.

supplied Hear Outlander star, Graham McTavish discuss Clanlands’, tales from an epic road trip around his homeland, at Unity Books. Rainbow Storytime with Hugo Grrrl Karori Library, Monday, 11am, free Join Wellington icon Hugo Grrrl and his glitter-clad crew at Karori Library for this special rainbow storytime featuring stories, songs, and games celebrating love, acceptance, diversity, and inclusion. Suitable for children of all ages with their caregivers. Graham McTavish - Clanlands: Whisky...

The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending March 12 Bestseller chart The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington. AUCKLAND 1  Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber, $37) New Ishiguro! New Ishiguro! It really should be shouted from the rooftops. (As should the fact that he’s appearing via livestream at the Auckland Write...

We are in the middle of a systemic environmental, social and economic crisis. So says Girol Karacaoglu, a former Chief Economist at the NZ Treasury who these days heads up the School of Government at Victoria University. Although he’s not alone – Girol stresses to me over Zoom that this is a view shared by “the most orthodox institutions you can think of” referring to the Treasury in its evidence for the 2019 Budget and Secretary-General of the OECD, Angel Gurria, in a 2019 speech. His ...

HAKO In front of Victoria University’s Library, Te Herenga Waka, Monday to Friday, 9am-8pm, free Visual artist Dr William Franco in collaboration with BARTKRESA studio in Los Angeles is presenting HAKO, a global projection arts festival, a dynamic and playful experience of sight and sound. Sing To Me, Taki Rua Te Whaea Theatre, until Saturday, 7.30pm, $35-$45 Two worlds collide when mild-mannered optometrist Ata and fierce sea maiden Whetū fall in love. Set against the backdrop of a climat...

Press Release – Tuwhiri Project Love you: public policy for intergenerational wellbeing is a new book by Professor Girol Karacaoglu, the Head of the School of Government at Victoria University of Wellington, which will be published by Wellington publisher Tuwhiri on 14th January … ‘Love you: public policy for intergenerational wellbeing’ is a new book by Professor Girol Karacaoglu, the Head of the School of Government at Victoria University of Wellington, which will be published by Wel...