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.
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New Zealand’s economic development has always been a partnership between the public and private sectors.
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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.
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By international standards the New Zealand healthcare system appears satisfactory – certainly no worse generally than average. Yet it is undergoing another redisorganisation.
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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.
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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
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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
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A Bully in a China Shop?
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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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This transcript of a recent conversation between the Prime Minister and his chief economic adviser has not been verified.
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Do its Property Right Provisions Make Sense?
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The invitation to comment on the proposed Regulatory Standards Bill opens with Minister David Seymour stating ‘[m]ost of New Zealand's problems can be traced to poor productivity, and poor productivity can be traced to poor regulations’.
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The state of the current economy may be similar to when National left office in 2017.
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Can we trust the Trump cabinet to act in the public interest?
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While we may not always have quality political leadership, a couple of recently published autobiographies indicate sometimes we strike it lucky.
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It is difficult to make sense of the Luxon Coalition Government’s economic management.
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The closest parallel to the current economic situation may be after Ruth Richardson became Minister of Finance in late 1990.
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How the Prospect Theory of Behavioural Economics Makes Economic Analysis Difficult
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The Dangers of Delusions of Grandeur
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Property rights – which enable decisions over tangible and intangible assets – are critical to an economy as Why Nations Fail pointed out.
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