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Tough time being an economist during the Cold War

‘You were on one side or the other. It was pretty hard to sit in the middle’: Alan Bollard on his new book.

WATCH: Victoria University economics professor Alan Bollard speaks with Brent Edwards.

Brent Edwards Wed, 11 Oct 2023

Former Reserve Bank governor and Treasury secretary Dr Alan Bollard is glad he was not an economist through the Cold War.

In a new book titled ‘Economists in the Cold War’, Bollard – now economics professor at Victoria University – charts the difficult path economists trod as the battle

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Brent Edwards Wed, 11 Oct 2023
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