A new book challenges how we need to think about technological innovation.
Read MoreOur Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
Why Nations Fail
This year’s Nobel awards in economics raise critical issues about the future of the world.
Read MoreHealthcare is Not in Crisis; Financing it Is.
Healthcare sector management needs to break away from its obsession with financial information and focus on funding for access.
Read MoreLaw and Order; An Economics Perspective
What might the public’s increasing demands for safety and security tell the economist?
Read MoreIs the New Zealand’s Retirement Strategy Sustainable?
Today’s mañana strategy will lead to a crisis for the oldest elderly.
Read MoreHow has the New Zealand economy been doing?
Stagnation and Contraction
Read MorePricing Road Usage
Congestion pricing is easier said than done.
Read MoreIn Open Seas; A Book
Have We an Infrastructure Deficit?
An Infrastructure Commission report says we are keeping up with infrastructure better than we might have thought from the grumbling. But the challenge of providing for the future remains.
Read MoreThe Principles of the Treaty
Hardly anyone says what are ‘the principles of the treaty’. The courts’ interpretation restrain the New Zealand Government. While they about protecting a particular community, those restraints apply equally to all community in a liberal democracy – including a single person.
Read MoreTrading Towards a Multipolar World
.AUKUS is a backward-looking policy. The World needs to move forward.
Read MoreShould Social Media Help Fund News Providers?
The underlying economics of the Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill rests on intellectual property rights.
Read MoreHierarchy or Colleagues?
The claim that there are currently 14 layers of management at Health New Zealand, raises wider issues of how we organise systems.
Read MoreThe Quest for Opportunity
David Seymour describing himself as an ‘old-fashioned lefty’ caused a flurry in the commentariat.
Read MoreBalancing External Security and the Economy
New Zealand is again having to reconcile conflicting pressures from its military and its trade interests. Should we join Pillar Two of AUKUS and risk compromising our markets in China?
Read MoreFlooding Housing Policy
The Minister of Housing’s ambition is to reduce markedly the ratio of house prices to household incomes. If his strategy works it would transform the housing market, dramatically changing the prospects of housing as an investment.
Read MoreLearning From Brexit
Whether Britain leaving the European Union was right or wrong, good or bad is for the Brits to decide. But there are lessons about international trade to be learned from Brexit, especially as it is very unusual for an economy to break so completely from its major training partner.
Read MoreThe Pharmac Fiasco
If you don’t understand how things work you make foolish mistakes. To explain how the government got into its cancer drugs muddle, we need to explain first how New Zealand’s pharmaceutical purchasing system works.
Read MoreWhat is Social Investment Analysis?
Evaluating the impact of social policies will be very difficult but the government does not seem to be doing much real evaluation.
Read MoreMainstreaming Māori
Mainstreaming need not be inherently anti-Māori. It will be if it is done badly because it will be anti-those-in need, and proportionally more of them are Māori.
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