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New Zealand is a small, isolated nation and needs to design itself accordingly. We should avoid uncritically imitating larger nations.
US foreign policy, especially in Latin America, has often been at the point of a gun. But the Trump Doctrine is going places previous US administrations haven’t. Let’s not miss what’s new
This column is a response to the complaint that we have poor economic performance because we have summer holidays. It praises them
The Minister of Finance says it is but, parochialism aside, are we doing anything to ensure it really is?
The tensions between different approaches to the economy are surfacing as the election nears.
Pragmatic analysis says maybe we should, but we should also consider nationalisation. We should certainly consider better regulation.
The pressure to globalise is consolidating towards a global world in which the US is a marginal player.
We should follow the Golden Rule of Fiscal Management and not borrow for consumption in the medium run.
Queen Elizabeth II famously asked about the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, ‘Why did no one see it coming?’
This review of ‘Conversations about our country with Jim Bolger’ by David Cohen was first published in the ‘NZ International Review’ .
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?
With the passing of Jim Bolger, New Zealand has lost a politician defined by another era, but who helped usher in the modern age of coalitions and managers. A politician who was never popular but who has become increasingly admired
New Zealand has ‘Scandinavian ambitions in terms of quality of life, but a US attitude to tax’: Lara Clark.
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.’*
What are the economic and political implications if the New Zealand economy stagnates for five and more years?
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.)
Angus Deaton’s ‘Economics in America’ challenges the direction that economics has taken.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney outlines an architecture