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Carrington: A Site For Sore Eyes
Pictures from the north end of Carrington Road; taken 3,4 February 2026:
Brave New World
The Actual Mason Clinic
Halfway House, halfway down Carrington Road
A place of Asylum, of ghosts, and, in this century, a School of Architecture
Siberia Wing? Recently (ie last decade) classrooms, offices and a bookshop café.
Once a modern veterinary clinic
A sunnier disposition
Keith Rankin (keith at rankin dot nz), trained as an economic historian, is a retired lecturer in Economics and Statistics. He lives in Auckland, New Zealand.
Keith Rankin
Political Economist, Scoop Columnist
Keith Rankin taught economics at Unitec in Mt Albert since 1999. An economic historian by training, his research has included an analysis of labour supply in the Great Depression of the 1930s, and has included estimates of New Zealand's GNP going back to the 1850s.
Keith believes that many of the economic issues that beguile us cannot be understood by relying on the orthodox interpretations of our social science disciplines. Keith favours a critical approach that emphasises new perspectives rather than simply opposing those practices and policies that we don't like.
Keith retired in 2020 and lives with his family in Glen Eden, Auckland.
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