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Oct 08 2020
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8 October 2020

Productivity and the future of technology

By | Book, ESRA, Featured, Front Page, Home Page, productivity commission, Published Research, Research, Shannon Walsh, technology, workers | No Comments

In this chapter excerpt from the forthcoming ESRA collection ‘Whose Futures?’ Shannon Walsh considers the New Zealand Productivity Commission’s recent inquiry into Technological change and the future of work. He examines the inquiry as a case study in the limitations of mainstream economic thought on the question of the future of technology and technological change. more

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Jun 06 2019
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6 June 2019

Budget 2019 Report

By | Ben Rosamond, Campbell Jones, ESRA, Featured, Home Page, Intervention, Jack Foster, Murdoch Stephens, Published Research, Research, Shannon Walsh, Ti Lamusse, Vanessa Cole | No Comments

ESRA researchers have teamed up with community researchers and activists to consider what the 2019 ‘Wellbeing budget’ means for those who are worst served by our current system. more

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May 23 2019
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23 May 2019

Outside the Bunker: A Conversation about Capitalism, Crisis and Cruelty

By | Campbell Jones and Baz Macdonald, Featured, Home Page, Political Organisation, Politics, Published Research, Research | No Comments

This interview between documentary film maker Baz Macdonald and ESRA Researcher Campbell Jones discusses capitalism, crisis, and the prospects for change. more

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Nov 30 2018
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To a Better World
30 November 2018

How the Global Tech Elite Imagine the Future

By | Anna-Maria Murtola, Home Page, Published Research, Research | No Comments

Aotearoa New Zealand has recently been in the global news as a bolthole for global billionaires preparing for the apocalypse, especially wealthy tech entrepreneurs and financial investors from the US. This report aims to shed light on how this segment of the global elite imagines the future. more

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