Trump may be accelerating the decline of US power.
Read MoreWill and Resources
Why 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.
Read MoreIs the New Zealand Healthcare System Doing Badly?
By international standards the New Zealand healthcare system appears satisfactory – certainly no worse generally than average. Yet it is undergoing another redisorganisation.
Read MoreCan We Ignore the Environment?
Peter Frankopan’s The Earth Transformed: An Untold History is a compelling account of the interaction between humans and the environment. We would be unwise to ignore it.
Read MoreTrump's UN vote a defining act that points to day of reckoning for NZ
A look at Donald Trump’s seismic foreign policy shifts and what America’s controversial vote at the United Nations alongside ‘strongman’ nations means for New Zealand
Read MoreThe Cult of Generic Management
As Lady Bracknell almost said, ‘to lose one may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness.’ And so a second Government Statistician has made a hasty exit, The official reason in each case was the management of the population census but the cult of generic management is the underlying failure
Read MoreTrumping Tariffs
A Bully in a China Shop?
Read MorePreparing for the Next Financial Earthquake
Severe geological and financial earthquakes are inevitable. We just don’t know how soon and how they will play out. Are we putting the right effort into preparing for them?
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