Posted
09th August 2001
Reserve Bank In Public Debate
(Photo shows Michael Reddell) Invitation: Public Debate on the
question: 'That the private banks should create almost all of
New Zealand's money supply' (with the Reserve Bank taking the
affirmative).
We would like to invite you to a public meeting and debate on
Monday August 27th, 7.30 pm at the Memorial Theatre, Students
Union, Victoria University, Wellington where British author
Michael Rowbotham will debate with Michael Reddell, Chief Manager,
Financial Markets Department, Reserve Bank of New Zealand.
Michael Rowbotham is author of two outstanding books The Grip
of Death, a Study of Modern Money, Debt Slavery and Destructive
Economics 1998 and Goodbye America Globalisation, Debt and the
Dollar Empire 2000. Goodbye America has been described by The
Ecologist as 'essential reading for social and environmental
reformers... Rowbotham's work places him on a par with social
reforming economists EF Schumacher and Henry George'.The Grip
of Death is strongly recommended by David Korten, author of
When Corporations Rule the World, Ed Mayo of the New Economics
Foundation, Herman Daly coauthor of For the Common Good , Professor
Bryan Gould, Vice-Chancellor of University of Waikato and Richard
Douthwaite, author of The Growth Illusion and Short Circuit.
His books have been reviewed in The Ecologist, Resurgence, New
Internationalist, The Tribune, The Tablet, Sustainable Economics,
Permaculture Magazine, Food Magazine, Social Credit and many
others. He was speaker at the March 2001 UK Green Party Conference,
and has been secretary of the UK Christian Council for Monetary
Justice.
Michael Reddell graduated from Victoria University of Wellington
in 1983 with a BCA (Hons) degree in economics. He joined the
Reserve Bank of New Zealand in late 1983 as an economist and
has held various management positions ever since. Between 1985
and 1987 he worked as an economics adviser in Papua New Guinea,
on secondment from the Reserve Bank. From 1993 to 1995 he held
an IMF-sponsored position as senior adviser on economics and
the development of financial markets to the Bank of Zambia.
He has had wide-ranging involvement with many of the Reserve
Bank's key monetary policy and financial markets issues.
Rowbotham's visit to New Zealand has been sponsored by NZ Democrats
and the chairperson for the meeting is Grant Gillon MP.
A range of organizations has been invited,including political
parties, student and senior associations, business groups, environmental
groups, church and social service groups, and we would be delighted
if you would take the opportunity to join us at this important
debate.
RSVP to finlay.thompson@vuw.ac.nz.
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