Do we need bigger multipurpose government mega-departments?
Read MoreThe Fashion for Merging
Restraining Dictator-inclined Politicians.
With his ‘I have the right to do anything I wanna do. I'm the president of the United States.’ Donald Trump is echoing Louis XIV who may have said ‘L’état, ce’est moi’ – ‘I am the state.’*
Read MoreLuxon and a Long Recession
What are the economic and political implications if the New Zealand economy stagnates for five and more years?
Read MoreHow Should We Organise Research?
A physician’s memoir describing a successful research program leads to pondering about research funding strategies. (The picture shows Eric Espiner with present and former colleagues celebrating his book launch.)
Read MoreTariffs Are Taxes
What can Econ101 tell us about Trump’s tariffs?
Read MoreAspiration Without Content
The Government’s Growth Strategy Seems to Have Little Analytic Content.
Read MoreHow Important is Distributional Economics?
Angus Deaton’s ‘Economics in America’ challenges the direction that economics has taken.
Read MorePoliticos 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?
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