Economy
It is the professionalism – competence and integrity – of the doctors, nurses and technicians who provide the care which obscures the managerial failure.
Read MoreIt is too easy to react to a problem rather than to tackle it thoughtfully.
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The Chatham Islands flag waves above the New Zealand one. Perhaps the Chathams offer insights on to how to govern New Zealand better.
Read MoreIts principles may involve outcomes which are not in the public interest.
Read MoreAre we evaluating the economy on the right criteria? Perhaps we should be paying more attention to rising overseas debt.
Read MoreWe have it around the wrong way. The issue is not what the arts contribute to market output. It is what market output contributes to the arts – and a lot more besides.
Read MoreWhy doesn’t our government reflect New Zealanders; why doesn’t Parliament make them?
Read MoreWas another IT debacle inevitable given the management arrangements?
Read MoreSteven Levitt, famous for his Freakanomics, shows that being an economist is not just mouthing supply and demand.
Read MoreThe Treasury released its budget economic forecasts. What do they say about the economy over the next four months?
Read MoreA conversation discussion between a minister and advisor.
Read MoreThe May 4 issue of the London “Economist” headlined that ‘Governments are living in a fiscal fantasyland’. It focussed on the four biggest economies – the US, China, EU and Japan – although many smaller ones would also illustrate its proposition, that each was losing control of its fiscal position with rising government debt.
Read MoreMuch of the Northern Hemisphere thinks we are in the merry month of May. Here it is budget month with much speculation in the lead up to the May 18 announcements and much superficial commentary after, all largely forgotten by June.
Read MoreHow far has the government’s Three Waters policy retreated?
Read MoreThe public service is suffering from the downgrading of the role of professionals, experts and those at the workface with the public.
Read MoreThere was great disappointment following the just released poverty figures for the year ended to June 2022. Whatever your take, we are not facing up to the real child poverty problems.
Read MoreEvaluating the recent crashes of Silicon Valley Bank in the US and Credit Suisse in Switzerland plus two other banks (perhaps more by the time you read this) needs to begin with a review of the inevitable instability in the financial sector.
Read MoreTwo senior economists challenge some of the foundations of current economics.
Read MoreCyclonic Storms Raise Economic Questions.
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