Writing from abroad

New Zealand-born, Bryan Gould’s latest column for The Guardian Newspaper identifies governments as the only organisations in a position to take the necessary long-term approach needed to stimulate the global economy and counter the recession. “Only governments have the capability and the duty to act in the wider interest … and to act consciously to defy market logic by spending when others can and will not.” Gould, who regularly writes for The Guardian on political and economic issues, was a New Zealand Rhode Scholar who studied law at Oxford and went on to have a career in the British Labour Party. He was Vice-Chancellor of Waikato University for ten years and is currently a director of TVNV.