2B RED - Book reviews & essays by Grant Scobie

2B RED: Kiwiana🍋

Books by or about Kiwis

Sep 16 •

2B RED: From down home🍋

Reviews of books by New Zealand authors

May 14 •

2B RED: Productivity isn’t everything, but …🍋

NZ agonises over its poor performance. A look to the past offers some useful ideas.

Mar 29 •

2B RED: A rainy day at the bach🍋

A few books that might appeal for summer holiday reading

Dec 28, 2024 •

2B RED: More interesting econ books🍋

Informative and accessible to a wide swathe of the economics profession

Sep 14, 2024 •

2B RED: Commonsense economics🍋

Economics books for the uninitiated, but not for dummies

Jun 11, 2024 •

2B RED: Justice will be done (hopefully)🍋

How my summer reading led me to a past hero of international law

Mar 2, 2024 •

2B RED: I spy, you spy, we all spy

A review of books on spies

Nov 4, 2023 •

An a-peel to the data

New Zealand: a banana republic without the bananas?

Apr 11, 2023 •

2B RED: The Corporate World: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Insights into the corporate world, mostly from the bastion of capitalism, the USA. But before you become depressed, or pine for regulation or stricter…

Mar 4, 2023 •

2B RED: on the "Special Military Operation" in Ukraine

Vladimir vs. Volodymyr - competing to be a "great and peaceful ruler"

Nov 5, 2022 •

2B RED: Law and Orr-der

John Law - gambler, murderer, fugitive, philanthropist, adventurer & central banker

Aug 23, 2022 •

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