Business of Government: the new rules of economic nationalism, the juice on CE appointments and more...

Business of Government: the new rules of economic nationalism, the juice on CE appointments and more...
NZ has to learn to play by the new rules of economic nationalism. (Image: Getty)
Jem Traylen
Screwing the global scrum?A visiting expert says small countries need to understand the new international rules of the game in a world that is ironically moving further away from a rules-based order.In a recent Treasury guest lecture, Ngaire Woods, founding dean of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government, said small countries such as New Zealand are “rule takers”, so internal political debates based on ideology were irrelevant.“If you put a rugby team on the field, and they think they're playing by one set...

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