Was it National-lite or is it a new direction?
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Heke Tangata, Māori in Markets and Cities
My new book describes the great postwar Māori migration from the countryside into the cities.
Read MoreScoring Carbon Emissions.
A powerful social law suggests we often explain or do things the wrong way. This may be particularly true when we try to address Global Warming.
Read MoreImproving the Child Poverty Reduction Bill
Extract from submission to a Select Committee of Parliament (Social Services and Community Committee).
Read MoreSquaring the Budget Circle
Should the government borrow more, spend more, tax more?
Read MoreHow Open an Economy?
Does Trump’s toying with the US rejoining the TPP mean anything?
Read MoreTax isn't love, it's resentment
Rather than embracing tax like a beloved cuddly toy, we should pay it kicking and screaming and we'll be the better for it if we do.
Read MoreDo You Trust Your Community?
The history of licensing trusts leads to questions about the importance of communities to us. Will they survive?
Read MoreA Big Change in Monetary Policy?
The Government’s new arrangements with the Reserve Bank represent an explicit acknowledgement of a major shift in theoretical underpinnings; whether it makes much change to the Bank’s operations is another matter.
Read MoreResponsibility and Policy
Are we too relaxed about those who promote policy failure?
Read MoreAre We Boiling Frogs?
Environmental pressures have been steadily accumulating. Are we aware of them? Are we responding?
Read MoreDoes Economic and Political Liberalisation Work?
A retired diplomat’s memoirs lead to pondering on whether Gorbachev ever had a chance?
Read MoreToday’s Vicars of Bray
The ease with which independents in the policy networks switch their allegiance when governments or ministers change tells us something about how New Zealand’s wider government system in works.
Read MoreRedesigning the Welfare State
A new report raises questions about the past and future of the support that we give to those in need.
Read MoreTaxing for Wellbeing
Can we extend our tax system to make it more suitable for a modern (post-neoliberal) nation?
Read MoreAre Share Prices Important?
How Do Share Markets Work?
Read MoreThe Arrogance of Experts
Poor work gets echoed if it is sensational enough and suits ideological preconceptions..
Read MoreThe New Government’s First Hundred Days.
What has it told us about the next three years?
Read MoreThe Future of Free Trade Agreements
This column was first posted at https://www.newsroom.co.nz/.
Read MoreCommonsense about Measuring Poverty
Treasury made a egregious error in its calculation of the impact of Labour’s tax package on poverty. Can we learn from it?
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