Law
By international standards the New Zealand healthcare system appears satisfactory – certainly no worse generally than average. Yet it is undergoing another redisorganisation.
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.
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
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
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?
This transcript of a recent conversation between the Prime Minister and his chief economic adviser has not been verified.
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’.
While we may not always have quality political leadership, a couple of recently published autobiographies indicate sometimes we strike it lucky.
The closest parallel to the current economic situation may be after Ruth Richardson became Minister of Finance in late 1990.
Property rights – which enable decisions over tangible and intangible assets – are critical to an economy as Why Nations Fail pointed out.
The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.
Donald Trump’s comeback is an historic achievement that re-writes the laws of politics and sets the United States on a new course it hasn’t seen for generations and that will test the guardrails of democracy
The polls say economics is the #1 issue for Americans but the debate seems to be a culture war for the soul of the United States. Thing is, they’re all different sides of the same anger and there’s data to prove it
This year’s Nobel awards in economics raise critical issues about the future of the world.
Healthcare sector management needs to break away from its obsession with financial information and focus on funding for access.
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.