The Ethnic Future for New Zealand Is Unknown. But It Will Be Diverse and Different
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Is Our Economics Good Enough?
A report on social services by the Productivity Commission raises serious problems about the quality of analysis in New Zealand.
Read MoreThe Future of Trade Agreements
Given a long history of numerous trade agreements, why has the public become especially concerned about the TPP?
Read MoreThe TPP, Sovereignty and Copyright
While TPP – any trade deal – compromises sovereignty it does not mean we cannot respond constructively to unsatisfactory aspects such as those involving intellectual property.
Read MoreThrive: The Power of Psychological Therapy: Richard Layard & David M Clark
The book’s ‘message is as compelling as it is important: the social costs of mental illness are terribly high and the costs of effective treatments are surprisingly low'. Daniel Kahneman (psychologist and Nobel economics laureate).
Read MoreLessons From Greece
Travel extends the mind. Here are some of the things I learned from a recent trip to Greece: about the age of the human condition, about how civilisations end with environmental depletion, about the stresses to the current Greek economy and about how trivial are New Zealand news websites.
Read MoreWhere is the world economy going?
The more one is certain about the state of an economy, the more one is likely to be wrong; the more one is certain about the state of an economy, the greater the media coverage. No wonder the public is confused.
Read MoreOwning New Zealand
How Much of New Zealand Has to Be Owned and Controlled by Foreigners?
Read MoreUnderlying Trade Deals
This was an introduction to a presentation by Stephen Jacobi: "TPP – Where to from Here (And How Did We Get Here Anyway)?" To a NZIIA lecture, 2 September 2015. (Some editing)
Read MoreFlagging Design
The flag debate tells us something about the quality of design in New Zealand
Read MoreThe State of the Economy: August 2015
Notes for Radio NZ Nights with Brian Crump: 11 August, 2014
Read MoreMore milk, less honey
As the milk price falls, Fonterra needs to react by rethinking its strategy
Read MoreOn Smalley: a bit of back & forth
I wasn't going to, but here are a few thoughts on the debate around Rachel Smalley's comments about John Campbell's new job and the dominance of white male broadcasters in primetime.
Read MoreConfusion about TPP
Trust Us?
Read MoreOutsourcing.
Why does it occur, when does it work?
Read MoreWhat Happened to Peak Oil?
Fracking has changed the energy outlook, with major geopolitical implications
Read MoreBubble, Bubble, Boil and Auckland Housing Trouble.
Treating the Auckland housing bubble as a supply-side problem doesn’t work; neither does blaming some group without a careful analysis of what is happening. What might work?
Read MoreIs the Economy Heading Into a Recession?
Whatever the answer, what are we going to do about it?
Read MoreLet’s Not Turn Greek Debt into a Democratic Deficit.
We need to distinguish the sovereign state from the people it governs, and the other political institutions between.
Read MoreDoes Income Inequality Reduce Equality of Opportunity?
Recent publications suggest that the children who live at the bottom in economies with high inequality have reduced life chances.
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