Economy
Journalist Graham Adams recently drew parallels between David Lange in the Fourth Labour Government and Jacinda Ardern in the Sixth, arguing that just as Lange was a hostage to the Rogernomes in his cabinet, Ardern is a hostage to the Māori in her caucus.
Read MoreThe book I am currently working on – tentative title ‘In Open Seas’ – looks at the current and future New Zealand. One chapter describes the policy towards Covid using the trope of warfare. It covers an important period in our history but it also shows how policy evolves and why, as Jacinda Ardern said, it was difficult to plan. This is as far as I have got (edited).
Read MoreCelebrating Poet Anne Kennedy
Read MoreThe tunnelling machine for Auckland Watercare’s $1.2b 14.7km Central Interceptor Network which is expected to substantially reduce sewage overflows onto Auckland beaches by 2025.
Why is there so much local opposition to the Three Waters restructuring?
Read MoreWhat is the Three Waters Restructuring Actually About?
Read MoreAn introductory economics course student is likely to meet the above graph. It shows that if the minimum wage (in purple) is above the point where the labour supply curve (in red) and labour demand curve (in blue) cross there will be less employment. That is what students are taught. But research shows the world does not work that way.
Read MoreIf we want to minimise the impact of the Covid virus we are going to have to think about social class.
Read MoreSometimes high theory loses the human point of the exercise.
Read MoreThe elimination of Covid strategy is not so much defeated but changing circumstances means that policy has to evolve.
Read MoreA Rogernome Defends the Policies.
Read MoreNot all neoliberals are the same, as a comparison ranging from Don Giovanni to Geneva School ordoliberals shows.
Read MoreA short review of the policy issues that Labour is facing and the ministers undertaking them.
Read MoreMichael Cullen set out his political philosophy in his autobiography. So has Chris Finlayson. His is having significant impact on Māori development.
Read MorePerhaps one of the reasons for vaccination hesitancy is that we are too casual about what constitutes science.
Read MoreThe research evidence is that humans, even experts, are poor forecasters.
Read MoreTrying to organise the electricity system around a competition model based on financial markets does not make sense.
Read MorePolitics in New Zealand is presented to the general public as theatre or sport. What is really going on is often misunderstood.
Read MoreGeoffrey Palmer has said that the public service has been so run down since 1984 that it could not today implement changes of the magnitude that the Lange-Douglas Government did.
Read MoreInside the Nudge Unit by David Halpern, provides new insights into behaviour which New Zealand public policy is steadily taking into consideration.
Read MorePhilosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.
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