A recent decision by New Zealand on Air in response to the changing media technologies raises a range of issues about how the platforms are used.
Read MoreEconomy
What Are You Thinking, Stupid?
A book about two psychologists who have altered the way we think about the way we think.
Read MoreLetter to Bill
Your In-tray is piled high.
Read MoreAngries and Mangries
Could the alienated grumpies have a greater effect on New Zealand political life?
This was written before John Key announced his resignation. Other than perhaps the tense I think there is no need for revision.
Read MoreWhat is Technology?
A new book leads to ponderings on our technology strategy.
Read MoreThe Future of International Trading.
Can Trump wreck the world trading system?
Read MoreRestoring Fiscal Responsibility
The times are a’changing, as recent macroeconomic fashions are being abandoned and old verities are being restated.
Read MoreAngry People
The alienated Angries who supported Brexit and Trump are not going to go away.
Read MoreJAFA Inequality
While overall income inequality may have been relatively stable over the last two decades, it appears to be increasing in Auckland (and perhaps in our other big urban centres).
Read MoreWho Was Accountable for the Shambles?
A novel about an historical event reminds us of the health redisorganisation of the 1990s, raising issues remaining relevant to today.
Read MoreCan Te Awamutu Have its Own Independent Central Bank?
Pretending it can, or that the Reserve Bank of New Zealand can function independently from the rest of the world, could generate a financial crash.
Read MoreThe Nobel for Economics?
What does the latest Economics Prize in honour of Alfred Nobel tell us about economics as a science?
Read MoreDo We Need Poverty Targets?
No, but we need to address poverty. Focusing on poverty targets which are not to be achieved in the time of the government which sets them is wasting energy and opportunity.
Read MoreThe Over-Representation of Maori in the Criminal Justice System.
A report explains why: small but accumulating biases together on top of adverse early-life social and environmental conditions.
Read MoreRethinking Trade Policy.
We don’t need to refresh trade policy; we need to rethink how best to engage with the world in the context of increasing globalisation.
Read MoreDeveloping Our Understanding of Poverty
Last week’s report on wellbeing and the household income distribution told us some new things. Are we listening?
Read MoreAre New Zealanders anti-intellectual?
Is it possible to have sensible discussions in public?
Read MoreWill Housing Prices Crash?
What are the possibilities for the future housing prices? What can we do?
Read MoreAnother Ministry of Silly Walks?
As the proposed Ministry of Vulnerable Children shows, we do not take prevention seriously.
Read MoreWhat Are Universities Really For?
A Professor of Education challenges universities about their purpose.
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