Walter Scheidel’s The Great Leveler says that it is – almost.
Read MoreEconomy
What If We Are On Our Own?
How prepared are we for the next international economic or financial crisis?
Read MoreShould Porkers Rule OK?
A new book extends the challenge of how to have a decent society for all. We can do better.
Read MoreShould We Tax Sugar?
And how should we tax sugar? The science and the economics are more difficult that one might think.
Read MoreWhat is the Significance of a Big Government Fiscal Surplus?
Does the Government’s Big Surplus Mean it Can Spend Up and Tax Down?
Read MoreInvisible Children
The Prime Minister told the UN that she aimed for New Zealand ‘to be the best place in the world to be a child’. Once we said it was.
Read MoreTowards a Low-Emission Economy.
Reporting a civilised conversation on the policy challenges of reducing carbon emissions.
Read MoreIs There Public Service in Our Public Service?
Are we confident that the proposed changes to State Services legislation will address the real problems?
Read MoreTrade War or Financial Crash?
Are the claims of an imminent financial crash justifed or hysterical? (These are notes prepared for Nights with Bryan Crump. 18 September 2018)
Read MoreWhat the Prime Minister Should Have Said to Business
Jacinda Ardern Did Not Say Enough at a Recent Business Breakfast.
Read MoreResurrecting the Development State
The Government’s proposed infrastructural entity in context.
Read MorePolitical Turmoil When the Economy Sours.
Australian politics has been even more entertaining than New Zealand’s. But aside from the ambitions of the comedians is there something else going on?
Read MoreAke, Ake, Ake!
We need to give greater protection to the public assets of heritage value.
Read MoreUneasy Lies the Head That Wears the Global Crown
Trump’s interactional strategy – such as it is – is leaving opportunities that others are filling.
Read MoreWinning Winston
It’s time we stopped looking at Winston Peters through the spectacles the Rogernomes gave to us
Read More‘Business Opinion’ is falling. Does it matter?
What is the actual state of the economy?
Read MoreWhither Archives New Zealand and the National Library?
Proposals to change the unsatisfactory status of two vital heritage institutions are meeting strong resistance from their current host.
Read MoreWhat Should the Government Be Doing?
I was asked to nominate ‘the three big things [the current government] should be tackling and is not’. Here is my answer.
Read MoreImbalanced Trade
Trump is going to war for the wrong reasons
Read MoreWhat this Economist Has Learned From Brexit
The consequences of Britain leaving the EU have exposed the complexity of one country’s economic relations with its partners.
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