Why is the British Labour Government penalising its poor?
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Brian Easton
Why is the British Labour Government penalising its poor?
Read MoreWe 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 MoreWhat can you do when you have hit your borrowing limit and still want to spend?
Read MoreWhy Government borrowing is limited
Read MoreTrump may be accelerating the decline of US power.
Read MoreThe Government’s plans to remove the wellbeing provisions in the Public Finance Act represents a reversal of the way society is travelling.
Read MoreACT ‘s neoliberals are still trying to sneak in a change to the constitution.
Read MoreMonopsonies – dominant purchasers – need to be restrained as much as monopolies – dominant sellers. That is what pay equity is about.
Read MorePerhaps the state of the economy is not as sound as we are being told.
Read MoreWhile 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 MoreShould we pursue a ‘Golden Rule’ where any public borrowing for consumption is temporary?
Read MoreA major American study suggests they are not?
Read MoreThe budget runup is far from easy.
Read MoreFour eighty-year-old books which are still vitally relevant today.
Read MoreA modest attempt to analyse Donald Trump’s tariff policies.
Read MoreWhile 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 MoreNew Zealand’s economic development has always been a partnership between the public and private sectors.
Read Moreit 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 MoreBy international standards the New Zealand healthcare system appears satisfactory – certainly no worse generally than average. Yet it is undergoing another redisorganisation.
Read MorePeter 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.
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