Bridget Williams Books: 132 books
by Max Rashbrooke
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
We are heading towards Thomas Piketty’s predicted steady state of wealth being worth six times national income. We are not immune to his prognosis of a return to Victorian-style levels of inequality.The most recent NBR Rich List has revealed the biggest proportional increase in wealth since the list...
Selfish Generations?
The Ageing of New Zealand’s Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Our present welfare state has little good reason to survive much longer, and we will have to find a new basis for its continued existence.’ So writes David Thomson as he offers an unflinching perspective on how different generations have fared under the social welfare policies of governments since...
Hopes Dashed?
The Economics of Gender Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
‘What has happened to New Zealand women’s economic and social status over the last twenty years?’
In 1994 economist Prue Hyman published Women and Economics, an overview of the status of women in the New Zealand economy. Much has changed since then but how much? Has the promise of equality...
Ruth, Roger and Me
Debts and Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
A time of major upheaval now stands between young and old in New Zealand. In 'Ruth, Roger and Me', Andrew Dean explores the lives of the generation of young people brought up in the shadow of the economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, those whom he calls ‘the children of the Mother of All Budgets’....
by Max Harris
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
By any measure, New Zealand must confront monumental issues in the years ahead. From the future of work to climate change, wealth inequality to new populism these challenges are complex and even unprecedented. Yet why does New Zealand’s political discussion seem so diminished, and our political...
The New Zealand Experiment
A World Model for Structural Adjustment?
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Jane Kelsey’s was a questioning and challenging voice when she wrote this passionate critique of New Zealand’s economic policies in the 1980s and 90s. The social and economic consequences of a decade of market-based reforms are laid bare in this statistically rich and rhetorically powerful work.Drawing...
Going Places
Migration, Economics and the Future of New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Migration and the movement of people is one of the critical issues confronting the world’s nations in the twenty-first-century.This book is about the economic contribution of migration to and from New Zealand, one of the most frequently discussed aspects of the debate. Can immigration, in economic...
Three Cities
Seeking Hope in the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Orthodox is obsolete; conventional is kaput. We thought we knew how we make economics, politics, technology and nature work for us. But increasingly, they are failing to run by the rules and systems we’ve honed over recent decades. Boom-bust economies, fractured and destructive politics and a deeply...
The Child Poverty Debate
Myths, Misconceptions and Misunderstandings
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2015
What is child poverty, what evidence is there of such poverty in New Zealand and why does it matter? These questions regularly attract answers accompanied by conjecture and prejudice. This short book uses the latest evidence and a non-partisan approach, identifying child poverty as a critical issue for...
Tangata Whenua
A History
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Tangata Whenua: A History presents a rich narrative of the Māori past from ancient origins in South China to the twenty-first century, in a handy paperback format. The authoritative text is drawn directly from the award-winning Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History; the full text of the big hardback...
Island Time
New Zealand's Pacific Futures
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
The task of living in modern New Zealand and especially in modern Auckland is not just to understand how to live with different peoples, but how to adapt to the future that has already happened.
New Zealand is a nation that exists on Pacific Islands, but does not, will not, perhaps cannot,...
by Jonathan Boston
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Jonathan Boston and Simon Chapple have written the definitive book on child poverty in New Zealand. Dr Russell Wills, Children’s CommissionerBetween 130,000 and 285,000 New Zealand children live in poverty, depending on the measure used. These disturbing figures are widely discussed, yet...
The Post-Snowden Era
Mass Surveillance and Privacy in New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Surveillance is confusing. Should we give up on expecting privacy because we're all being watched, or stop worrying because it's all exaggerated? Actually, neither of those is right. A much better idea is to find a book that is sane, well researched and easy to read, so you understand, don't fear...
Antibiotic Resistance
The End of Modern Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
In ten years’ time, will antibiotics still work? Have we let bacteria get the upper hand in the evolutionary arms race?
In the 1920s the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin started a golden age of medicine. However, experts warn that the end of that age may be just a decade away. In this...