Book get off the grass book

In a brilliant intellectual adventure that ranges from David Ricardo and Adam Smith to economic geography and the science of complex networks Shaun Hendy and Paul Callaghan explore how New Zealanders can learn to live off knowledge rather than nature The key to increasing New Zealand s prosperity they argue is innovation in high tech niches To catch up with the countries that lure young Kiwis away New Zealand needs to start innovating like a city of four million people it needs to start taking science seriously it needs to start seeing its people as people of learning not just of the land Get off the Grass provides a readable introduction to a wide variety of ideas including economic geography network theory and complexity theory offers unique insights into the New Zealand economy and its long term prospects adds to current debates worldwide about innovation science economic growth and networks Get off the Grass Kickstarting New Zealand s Innovation EconomyAn excellent look at the challenges and the potentials of the New Zealand economy I would recommend for anyone entering politics in New Zealand 248 Despite being out of date by a decade Hendy Callaghan s book has some insights that New Zealand is still to grasp and could benefit from The arguments were persuasive and well structured At times the book repeats itself as if the two authors weren t always on the same page and the examples often felt inapt or contradictory I enjoyed the window into our country s strategic policy and possible paths forward 248 Necessary reading for kiwis particularly if in business decision making or govt policy Explains research showing New Zealand prosperity needs to grow and that as a country we can do this with a high tech sector that sits alongside our big primary sector Lovely to read a recently written and local book with many insights Remains reasonably macro economic so the individual business owner may be hoping for micro specifics beyond being inspired to help in the cause of lifting our GDP by several billion annually 248