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I was sitting around eating a date scone the other day when I ran into this article by Shamubeel Eaqub. The topic was central bank communication and whether the RBNZ (New Zealand’s central bank) was doing things well. Within a number of hours I’d been sent the link numerous times and had received a pile […]
I am not blogging at the moment – and I’m incredibly sorry about that. I won’t really be back until I can commit to being back properly – which won’t be until I’ve completed a lot of modeling work related to income inequality in New Zealand. I am not back today to talk about any […]
I see that some Australian TV show host said that New Zealand has the “dole bludger army” for support in the cricket. Now something about intimate relationships with sheep or cows, or something about little country syndrome, or something about Lord of the Rings, would have been fine – banter is acceptable. But his statement […]
During the nomination round this year I kept hearing the same questions coming up. Who am I supposed to nominate? Why would I nominate someone? How can I mix the ideas of economics and sexiness? As this is an economics blog the vast majority of these comments came from economists or people with a strong […]
It is hard to believe it has already been nearly a year since we have celebrated the work of New Zealand economists with a sexiest economist competition – and nearly two years since the competition kicked off. However, it has been a year, so we’re doing this all over again. Last year we introduced a nominations round. […]
Hello New Zealand readers. Just giving you a heads up that tomorrow (Thursday, 23 October) there is a panel discussion on the Piketty book (Capital in the Twenty-First Century) and its relevance to New Zealand. As I contributed to the related book of book reviews, and as this particular event is in Wellington (where I […]