Angus Deaton’s ‘Economics in America’ challenges the direction that economics has taken.
Read MoreHow Important is Distributional Economics?
Politicos vs Wonks.
Winning office is not the same as achieving change.
Read MoreThe Reality of Fiscal Constraints
Why is the British Labour Government penalising its poor?
Read MoreIs Progress Progressive?
We should not assume that all adopted innovations are progressive. Jonathon Haidt’s ‘The Anxious Generation’ illustrates that sometimes they require social measures to enhance well being.
Read MoreInvesting in the Public Health System
What can you do when you have hit your borrowing limit and still want to spend?
Read MoreConstraining Fiscal Management
Why Government borrowing is limited
Read MoreWill and Resources
Trump may be accelerating the decline of US power.
Read MoreWhy Wellbeing?
The Government’s plans to remove the wellbeing provisions in the Public Finance Act represents a reversal of the way society is travelling.
Read MoreTaking Economics
ACT ‘s neoliberals are still trying to sneak in a change to the constitution.
Read MoreEconomic Bullies
Monopsonies – dominant purchasers – need to be restrained as much as monopolies – dominant sellers. That is what pay equity is about.
Read MoreBudget 2025
Perhaps the state of the economy is not as sound as we are being told.
Read MoreCatholic Theology on the Economy
While many of the world’s Christian religions seem preoccupied with personal issues that Jesus, their founder, barely touched upon, they must engage with economic issues too.
Read MoreSeeking Fiscal Balance
Should we pursue a ‘Golden Rule’ where any public borrowing for consumption is temporary?
Read MoreAre We Paying Enough Attention to the Working Class?
A major American study suggests they are not?
Read MoreThe 2025 Budget in a World of Trade Warfare
The budget runup is far from easy.
Read MoreViennese Refugees Who Changed the Way We Think
Four eighty-year-old books which are still vitally relevant today.
Read MoreCountervailing Trumpian Sense
A modest attempt to analyse Donald Trump’s tariff policies.
Read MoreResource Management and Property Rights
While there have been decades of complaints – from all sides – about the workings of the Resource Management Act (RMA), replacing is proving difficult. The Coalition Government is making another attempt.
Read MorePublic-Private-Partnerships?
New Zealand’s economic development has always been a partnership between the public and private sectors.
Read MoreWhy Do Cryptocurrencies Appear to Be So Valuable?
it is said that economists know the price of everything and the value of nothing. That may be an exaggeration but an even better response is to point out economists do know the difference.
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