The Minister of Finance says it is but, parochialism aside, are we doing anything to ensure it really is?
Read MoreIs New Zealand the Best Place to Be?
Economy
The Politics of Different Economic Strategies
The tensions between different approaches to the economy are surfacing as the election nears.
Read MoreShould We Privatise More Government Businesses?
Pragmatic analysis says maybe we should, but we should also consider nationalisation. We should certainly consider better regulation.
Read MoreThe G85 Economy
The pressure to globalise is consolidating towards a global world in which the US is a marginal player.
Read MoreFiscal Policy Should Focus More on Net Worth
We should follow the Golden Rule of Fiscal Management and not borrow for consumption in the medium run.
Read MoreThe Next Crash
Queen Elizabeth II famously asked about the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, ‘Why did no one see it coming?’
Read MoreUnderlying Economic Growth
What do the 2025 Nobel awards in economics say to us?
Read MoreTribute to Jim Bolger
This review of ‘Conversations about our country with Jim Bolger’ by David Cohen was first published in the ‘NZ International Review’ .
Read MoreAvoiding the Horrendous Fiscal Crisis.
Our current fiscal settings promise that we will eventually face a public debt explosion. A major cause would arise from the aging population. Is there anything we can do?
Read MoreFiscal Choices: Scandinavia or America?
New Zealand has ‘Scandinavian ambitions in terms of quality of life, but a US attitude to tax’: Lara Clark.
Read MorePolitical Bullying
It even happens in New Zealand. Local autonomy suffers.
Read MoreAround the Corner?
What the latest Statistics New Zealand GDP figures might be telling us.
Read MoreIs the Capital in Capitalism Coming to an End?
Big Corporations Are Not What We Think They Are
Read MoreThe Fashion for Merging
Do we need bigger multipurpose government mega-departments?
Read MoreRestraining 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.
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