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The Revolution that Nearly Was
A book in multiple chapter-length posts about modernisation and backsliding, with a twin focus on the attempted mid-twentieth-century industrialisation of Aotearoa New Zealand, and the wider attempt to make poverty history.
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Chris Harris, PhD
Aug 20, 2024
From Opportunism to Investment: Rethinking Economic Policy, 1850–1980
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Chris Harris, PhD
Aug 9, 2024
Overcoming Lions: Why Economics Needs to Drop the Cult of Opportunism
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Chris Harris, PhD
Jul 9, 2024
No Right to the City? The denial of indigenous urbanisation in Aotearoa
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Chris Harris, PhD
Jun 29, 2024
Rejected Takeoff: How New Zealand became an Unlucky Country
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Chris Harris, PhD
Apr 20, 2024
From Menders to Makers: How we Built a Manufacturing Nation
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Chris Harris, PhD
Apr 8, 2024
The Myth of Stagnation: How We Lost the Plot in the 1970s
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Chris Harris, PhD
Apr 8, 2024
‘The Next Million’: Planning for Growth in the 1950s and 1960s
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Chris Harris, PhD
Mar 8, 2024
The Revolution that Nearly Was
How Aotearoa New Zealand’s progress was frustrated, and utopia mislaid
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