That’s the title of a new book, published this month, by veteran economist and commentator Brian Easton. The title is borrowed from a collection of poems, published in 1939, by New Zealand poet Allen Curnow, but presumably also keys off the author’s previous book published in 1997, In Stormy Seas: The Post-War New Zealand Economy.
The full title of the new book, published by Victoria University Press, is Not in Narrow Seas: The Economic History of Aotearoa New Zealand. It is a curious title in a number of respects. First, there is that reference to the place – so beloved of public servants and the Wellington liberals – that is no place: New Zealand is the name of the modern country, and there was – so far as we know – no collective name for what went before. Then there is the definite article…
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