BWB Texts : Economic Futures.

Intro -- Contents -- Wellbeing Economics -- Preface -- 1  Wellbeing Economics -- Wellbeing Economics -- The Capabilities Approach of Amartya Sen -- Time-Use Choices and Market Production -- Value-Added Activities and the Structure of the Book -- 2  Leading Lives We Have Reason to Value -- The Time Use Survey -- Housing and Wellbeing -- Childcare and Wellbeing -- Cultural Capital -- 3  Living Well in Communities -- Community Organisations and Wellbeing -- Social Capital and Wellbeing -- Local Government and Wellbeing -- Natural Capital and Wellbeing -- Co-production of Local Government Services -- 4  Value through Enterprise and Skills -- Market Production and Wellbeing -- Physical Capital and Wellbeing -- Market Employment and Wellbeing -- Labour Market Skills and Wellbeing -- Human Capital and Wellbeing -- 5  Public Service to Expand Capabilities -- Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Wellbeing -- Taxation and Wellbeing -- Market Regulation and Wellbeing -- Equity and Wellbeing -- Infrastructure and Wellbeing -- The Public Service and Wellbeing -- 6  Future Directions for New Zealand -- A Wellbeing Example -- Value-Added Activities -- Skills and Education -- The Living Standards Framework and Better Public Services -- From Welfare State to Wellbeing State -- Notes and Further Reading -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- About the Authors -- Growing Apart -- Introduction -- 1  Many Nations Beneath the Surface -- Different Regional Economies -- Regional Specialisations -- Economic Interconnections -- Differing Performance -- Inequality, Loss of Trust and Poverty -- Secular versus Local Factors -- 2  Forces Beyond Our Control -- Technology and Accelerating Change -- Unstoppable Urbanisation -- Globalisation and Its Discontents -- Ageing Fast -- 3  Consequences of Change -- A Growing Creative Class.

Educated and Connected -- The Provincial Trap -- 4  Voting with Their Feet -- Leaving, Ageing and Arriving -- Reversal of Decline Is Possible -- 5  Call to Action -- Hard Questions -- No Easy Solutions -- Agree on the Problem and the Goal -- Gather Evidence -- Develop a Strategy -- Collaboration -- Review and Refine -- Growing Together -- Notes and Further Reading -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- The Inequality Debate -- Introduction -- 1  Why Inequality Matters -- DEFINING INEQUALITY -- UNEQUAL IMPACTS -- BUT WHY DO LOW INCOMES MATTER? -- WHY INEQUALITY - WHY NOT JUST POVERTY? -- WHAT ABOUT SOCIAL MOBILITY? -- RIGHTFUL REWARD? -- CAN'T ECONOMIC GROWTH SOLVE THIS? -- WHY INEQUALITY MATTERS -- Dysfunction: how do unequal societies fail? -- Division: how does inequality break down social cohesion? -- Stagnation: how does inequality weaken growth? -- 2  Inequality and New Zealand -- WHO EARNS WHAT? -- WHO OWNS WHAT? -- MORE UNEQUAL THAN MOST -- WHAT WE DON'T MEASURE -- NEW ZEALAND EQUALITY - TRUTH AND MYTH -- A TURNING TIDE -- THE GREAT DIVERGENCE -- GOING NOWHERE -- THE STRUGGLING MIDDLE -- UP, UP AND AWAY -- ACCEPTING THE GREAT DIVIDE? -- THE CHALLENGE NOW -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- The Piketty Phenomenon -- Introduction -- About the Authors -- Has Capital in the Twenty-First Century Changed Anything? -- Income and wealth distribution -- Piketty's approach -- The Matthew principle -- Policy implications -- Piketty's Book is the Real Article -- Why the Fuss? -- How Economists Might View the Piketty Thesis -- The Promise of a New Politics and a New Economics -- A new politics -- A new economics -- Pickings from Piketty -- What Piketty Means for Us -- Unplugging the Machine -- Gender: the missing discussion -- The orthodoxy of wide earnings differentials -- How radical is Piketty? -- Unplugging the system.

Illuminating Inequality -- Why We Need to Shift to Capital Taxes -- What is the Piketty Model, and Does it Fit New Zealand? -- The relationship between labour and capital -- Drivers of the policy conclusions -- Relevance to New Zealand? -- Bringing Wealth into the Spotlight -- Wealth in New Zealand -- Recalibrating New Zealand -- New Zealand Superannuation -- Working for Families -- Taxation of wealth -- The Future of Inequality -- 1. The book challenges dominant beliefs about elites and inequality -- 2. Inequality became a heated topic after 2008 -- 3. The book clarifies and legitimises middle-class anxieties post-2008 -- 4. The book remains reassuringly conventional -- The future of inequality -- Capital Connections for Education -- Endnotes -- The Inequality Debate: An Introduction -- Introduction -- Why Inequality Matters -- Inequality and New Zealand -- The Piketty Phenomenon: New Zealand Perspectives -- About BWB Texts.

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