Love You: Public Policy For Intergenerational Wellbeing By Girol Karacaoglu
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 new book is intended primarily as a challenge to young people: change the way that New Zealand