Today’s mañana strategy will lead to a crisis for the oldest elderly.
Read MoreIs the New Zealand’s Retirement Strategy Sustainable?
Economy
How has the New Zealand economy been doing?
Stagnation and Contraction
Read MorePricing Road Usage
Congestion pricing is easier said than done.
Read MoreIn Open Seas; A Book
The Principles of the Treaty
Hardly anyone says what are ‘the principles of the treaty’. The courts’ interpretation restrain the New Zealand Government. While they about protecting a particular community, those restraints apply equally to all community in a liberal democracy – including a single person.
Read MoreTrading Towards a Multipolar World
.AUKUS is a backward-looking policy. The World needs to move forward.
Read MoreShould Social Media Help Fund News Providers?
The underlying economics of the Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill rests on intellectual property rights.
Read MoreHierarchy or Colleagues?
The claim that there are currently 14 layers of management at Health New Zealand, raises wider issues of how we organise systems.
Read MoreThe Quest for Opportunity
David Seymour describing himself as an ‘old-fashioned lefty’ caused a flurry in the commentariat.
Read MoreBalancing External Security and the Economy
New Zealand is again having to reconcile conflicting pressures from its military and its trade interests. Should we join Pillar Two of AUKUS and risk compromising our markets in China?
Read MoreFlooding Housing Policy
The Minister of Housing’s ambition is to reduce markedly the ratio of house prices to household incomes. If his strategy works it would transform the housing market, dramatically changing the prospects of housing as an investment.
Read MoreLearning From Brexit
Whether Britain leaving the European Union was right or wrong, good or bad is for the Brits to decide. But there are lessons about international trade to be learned from Brexit, especially as it is very unusual for an economy to break so completely from its major training partner.
Read MoreThe Pharmac Fiasco
If you don’t understand how things work you make foolish mistakes. To explain how the government got into its cancer drugs muddle, we need to explain first how New Zealand’s pharmaceutical purchasing system works.
Read MoreWhat is Social Investment Analysis?
Evaluating the impact of social policies will be very difficult but the government does not seem to be doing much real evaluation.
Read MoreMainstreaming Māori
Mainstreaming need not be inherently anti-Māori. It will be if it is done badly because it will be anti-those-in need, and proportionally more of them are Māori.
Read MoreCoalition of the Unwilling?
What does Budget 2024 tell us about the current government? Muddle on?
Read MoreThe 2024 Budget Forecasts Are Gloomy About The Next Three Years.
There was no less razzamatazz about the 2024 Budget than about earlier ones. Once again the underlying economic analysis got lost. It deserves more attention.
Read MoreThe Taxpayers’ Union at Eleven
How to run a successful pressure group.
Read MoreHas Labour Abandoned the Welfare State They Created in 1938?
The 2018 Social Security Act suggests that Labour may have retreated to the minimalist (neo-liberal) welfare state which has developed out of the Richardson-Shipley ‘redesign’.
Read MoreThinking About the Property Rights in Resource Decisions As Well As Transaction Costs.
There are more whio (blue ducks; hymenolaimus malacorhynchos) on our banknotes than in the wild.
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