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Biography: Rosenberg, Wolfgang

Retirement

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Wolfgang Rosenberg retired from the University of Canterbury’s Economics Department in 1979. In his retirement speech, he urged his fellow economists to ‘turn on to a fairer road’ and reject the emerging emphasis on free markets and deregulation.

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Ross Webb. 'Rosenberg, Wolfgang', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2025. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/47960/retirement (accessed 15 June 2026).