Jacinda Ardern Did Not Say Enough at a Recent Business Breakfast.
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Resurrecting the Development State
The Government’s proposed infrastructural entity in context.
Read MorePolitical Turmoil When the Economy Sours.
Australian politics has been even more entertaining than New Zealand’s. But aside from the ambitions of the comedians is there something else going on?
Read MoreAke, Ake, Ake!
We need to give greater protection to the public assets of heritage value.
Read MoreUneasy Lies the Head That Wears the Global Crown
Trump’s interactional strategy – such as it is – is leaving opportunities that others are filling.
Read MoreWinning Winston
It’s time we stopped looking at Winston Peters through the spectacles the Rogernomes gave to us
Read More‘Business Opinion’ is falling. Does it matter?
What is the actual state of the economy?
Read MoreWhither Archives New Zealand and the National Library?
Proposals to change the unsatisfactory status of two vital heritage institutions are meeting strong resistance from their current host.
Read MoreWhat Should the Government Be Doing?
I was asked to nominate ‘the three big things [the current government] should be tackling and is not’. Here is my answer.
Read MoreImbalanced Trade
Trump is going to war for the wrong reasons
Read MoreWhat this Economist Has Learned From Brexit
The consequences of Britain leaving the EU have exposed the complexity of one country’s economic relations with its partners.
Read MoreAre Loans Income?
The High Court recently decided that when the Ministry of Social Development calculates a social security beneficiary’s income any mortgage and credit cards loans she received were not income. Quite right, but it took a tortuous path to come to the right conclusion.
Read MoreIs Democracy in Retreat?
A Harvard academic explains why some kinds of democracy are becoming less popular.
Read MoreTo Wed or not to Wed.
Why are we not worried by an unmarried mother leading the country? Once we would have been.
Read MoreBad Statistics
Mike Hosking’s statistical ignorance is so extraordinary that one’s immediate reaction is that a description of it was satire; nobody could be as ill-informed as that – and certainly not a major public commentator.
Read MoreHow’s the Government Doing?
The term of the 52nd New Zealand Parliament is a quarter of the way through. We ought to be getting some impression of the government by now.
Read MoreEnabling Us to Assess Government Performance Better
It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. I am quite sure that it is figures which show us whether it is being ruled well or badly. Goethe
Read MoreTrade Wars
How Can New Zealand Deal with a Trade War Between Elephants?
Read MoreCommon Good Economics
Another French economist contributes an uncommonly good book.
Read MoreOf Foxes and Hedgehogs
Hedgehogs thrive in New Zealand, more so than in Eurasia where they come from. Any foxes are in zoos.
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