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Comments on: Labour’s alternative budget http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2014/05/12/labour-alternative-budget/ The Visible Hand in Economics Sun, 18 May 2014 21:25:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: National’s not alternative budget: Budget 2014 | The Dismal Science http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2014/05/12/labour-alternative-budget/#comment-43182 Sun, 18 May 2014 21:25:48 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=11373#comment-43182 […] the Labour and Greens alternative budgets were focused on industrial subsides (the “Green energy […]

]]> By: Budget 2014 | The Dismal Science http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2014/05/12/labour-alternative-budget/#comment-43173 Thu, 15 May 2014 22:15:59 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=11373#comment-43173 […] post.)Matt has covered off alternative-budget, election-manifesto announcements from ACT, Labour, and the Greens. It would say that ACT fails on Point 3, and Labour on Point 2. I fully expect […]

]]> By: National’s not alternative budget: Budget 2014 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2014/05/12/labour-alternative-budget/#comment-43160 Thu, 15 May 2014 07:39:38 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=11373#comment-43160 […] the Labour and Greens alternative budgets were focused on industrial subsides (the “Green energy […]

]]> By: Labour’s alternative budget http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2014/05/12/labour-alternative-budget/#comment-43128 Mon, 12 May 2014 08:27:28 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=11373#comment-43128 […] Matt Nolan I suppose that this was Labour’s alternative budget. They’ve taken the policy documents […]

]]> By: Matt Nolan http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2014/05/12/labour-alternative-budget/#comment-43127 Mon, 12 May 2014 08:23:00 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=11373#comment-43127 In reply to Sam Murray.

Haha, that is exactly it – then the comms people likely wonder why they get policy people in in the first place 😉

]]> By: Sam Murray http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2014/05/12/labour-alternative-budget/#comment-43126 Mon, 12 May 2014 07:08:00 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=11373#comment-43126 That will be the influence of the ubiquitous communication professional. Just like in the Act Budget. I imagine the conversation would have gone like this:

Comms 1: We need a tagline for our budget.
Policy: Well we have a real focus on industrial policy that should help our exporters and strengthen the economy in the long term.
Comms 2: Yea that is real boring.
Comms 1: Not catchy at all.
Comms 2: Wait, industry employs workers so therefore unemployment will be lower under Labour, boom!
Policy: Well hopefully, but of course that would be an indirect effect so we can’t…
Comms 1: I like it lower unemployment. What is unemployment projected to be under National?
Policy: 5 percent, but we really can’t…
Comms 1: Perfect so we go with 4 percent.
Policy: You can’t quantify indirect effects like, it is a meaningless….
Comms 2: Sounds like we have consensus.
Comms 1: 4 percent unemployment under Labour, I like it.

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