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Incredible luck / Don Brash.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Auckland, New Zealand : Troika Books Limited, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 330 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (mostly colour) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780473270575 (hbk.)
  • 9780473269081 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 324.2092 23
Contents:
Introduction :-- Why write a book? -- Incredible luck -- -- Some successes I'm proud of: -- American corporate investment in Australian industry -- Broadbank -- Government advisory committees -- Reserve Bank of New Zealand -- -- Partial successes: -- Trust Bank -- Politics -- -- Some failures and regrets: -- New Zealand Kiwifruit Authority -- Peter Ellis -- 2025 Taskforce -- Huljich Wealth Management -- Personal -- A closing comment -- -- Some conclusions reached, and some unanswered questions: -- One law for all -- Religion, fundamentalism and Islam -- Drugs - is the present policy working? -- China's rise - promise or peril for New Zealand? -- The challenge of making economic policy in a democracy -- Economic growth and the New Zealand conundrum -- Assessment of the Key Government -- Does democracy have a future?
Summary: Don Brash has been closely involved in the economic and political life of New Zealand for more than four decades - as economist, chief executive of Broadbank, the New Zealand Kiwifruit Authority, and Trust Bank, chairman of numerous government advisory committees, Governor of the Reserve Bank, company director, orchardist, and Leader of both the National Party and ACT. Part of this book is about his life, but it's not a conventional autobiography. Rather it's his own assessment of where he succeeded and where he failed. He chose the title of the book in recognition of the fact that he has been almost unbelievably fortunate - starting off with being born in New Zealand in the middle of the 20th century. There aren't many better places to be born, nor better times in human history to be alive. But the book is more than that. It is also a record of his views on a wide range of issues: the Treaty industry, religion, drug laws, New Zealand's relationship with China, the difficulty of making policy when so few people have any real understanding of economics, an assessment of the Key Government, and the future of democracy. It's the only book he's written since his doctoral dissertation in the sixties - aside of course from umpteen reports on taxation, monetary policy, and other economic issues - and he says it will be his last.
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Introduction :-- Why write a book? -- Incredible luck -- -- Some successes I'm proud of: -- American corporate investment in Australian industry -- Broadbank -- Government advisory committees -- Reserve Bank of New Zealand -- -- Partial successes: -- Trust Bank -- Politics -- -- Some failures and regrets: -- New Zealand Kiwifruit Authority -- Peter Ellis -- 2025 Taskforce -- Huljich Wealth Management -- Personal -- A closing comment -- -- Some conclusions reached, and some unanswered questions: -- One law for all -- Religion, fundamentalism and Islam -- Drugs - is the present policy working? -- China's rise - promise or peril for New Zealand? -- The challenge of making economic policy in a democracy -- Economic growth and the New Zealand conundrum -- Assessment of the Key Government -- Does democracy have a future?

Don Brash has been closely involved in the economic and political life of New Zealand for more than four decades - as economist, chief executive of Broadbank, the New Zealand Kiwifruit Authority, and Trust Bank, chairman of numerous government advisory committees, Governor of the Reserve Bank, company director, orchardist, and Leader of both the National Party and ACT. Part of this book is about his life, but it's not a conventional autobiography. Rather it's his own assessment of where he succeeded and where he failed. He chose the title of the book in recognition of the fact that he has been almost unbelievably fortunate - starting off with being born in New Zealand in the middle of the 20th century. There aren't many better places to be born, nor better times in human history to be alive. But the book is more than that. It is also a record of his views on a wide range of issues: the Treaty industry, religion, drug laws, New Zealand's relationship with China, the difficulty of making policy when so few people have any real understanding of economics, an assessment of the Key Government, and the future of democracy. It's the only book he's written since his doctoral dissertation in the sixties - aside of course from umpteen reports on taxation, monetary policy, and other economic issues - and he says it will be his last.

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