Keith Rankin

I am a political economist and economy historian
living in Auckland, New Zealand.

My email contact is:
keithr@ak.planet.gen.nz.

The Rankin File


1998 Papers


Papers to 1996.

Report of the September 1996 Conference of the Basic Income European Network (Vienna). [49kB]

The actual paper presented at BIEN, Vienna.
[100 kB]; {requires MS Word or a reader.}

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Paper Presented to the UBINZ Conference at Wellington, 1-2 July 1996;
published as Policy Discussion Paper 20, Economics Department, University of Auckland, December 1996. [57kB]

The Appendix Table missing from the published paper.
{requires MS Excel}

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Article in The Independent (NZ) (in August,'96): "F.List and others, as economic nationalists, propagated the myth of Smith and his acolytes as cosmopolitan thinkers."

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'Social Wage' paper presented to the Conference of the New Zealand Political Studies Association, 8-10 July 1996. [42 kB]

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The Independent article (in May,'96): "What's cheaper; placating the poor with welfare or
imprisoning the rich?"

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New Zealand Political Review article "Investing in Children" about the April 1995 Massey (Albany) conference on "The Multiple Effects of Poverty on Children and Young People: Issues and Answers"

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"New Zealand 1995: A Miracle Economy?" Policy Discussion Paper No.19, Department of Economics, University of Auckland (1995).

{requires MS WORD 6.0}

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1997 Papers.


Article on Social Dividends and
Flat Taxes, submitted to the NZ Herald; June,'97

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Paper to the
Beyond Poverty Conference, March '97, at
Massey University, Albany campus, Auckland, N.Z.
[27 kB]

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Article in the April 1997 NZ Political Review, entitled: "Demonic Calculations".

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20May article in the NZ Herald: "Age Dependency next Century? A Global Perspective."
("experience ... suggests that age dependency is not a problem.")

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Lead article in the NZ Herald replying to a comment in Martin Hames' ("Free Thinking", Herald, 3 Jan) review of 1996.
("... better off ... if we all worked less hard.")

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New Zealand Political Review article (in August,'97):
"Teach your Children Well"

"At the heart of the argument about superannuation is intergenerational reciprocity ..."

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"The Balance of Payments Deficit",  submitted to the N Z Herald on 8 Oct., 1997

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A New Fiscal Contract? Constructing a Universal Basic Income and a Social Wage.
published in the Social Policy Journal
of New Zealand
9: 55-65 (".. The right to enjoy one's social inheritance is no less sacrosanct than the rights of private inheritance.")

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The Collective Valuation of Unpaid and Underpaid Work
Presented to the Work, Family and the State conference, held at Hokowhitu Campus, Massey University, 28-30 November 1997. ("As social beings, we have an innate motivation to contribute to the public domain through unpaid work and through accepting wages that do not reflect the full value of our work")

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Keith's email contact is: keithr@ak.planet.gen.nz.

I would like to thank David for hosting my Internet pages in 1997, and for constructing, in particular, the above table for me.

 Davd's Site

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