One of the founding authors and editors of TVHE has a couple of cool anti-trust articles up for the Anti-Trust writing awards. I reckon we should go an give them some support. Will Taylor notes this on LinkedIn here – but if that doesn’t work for you the link to the voting for the two […]
Over two days Betsey Stevenson had two posts on the nature of work – both of which I agree with, and both of which sound like they may contradict. So wait a second, if someone in a high status job gets paid more for the same effort and same contribution then why are we talking […]
With prices rising an increasing number of people are looking for a scapegoat. Fairly “obviously” the blame should be on those who are increasing prices – namely firms. This outbreak of greed is then being used as an explanation for why firms are increasing prices, and the suggestion is that – instead of cutting government […]
In a recent article on interest.co.nz I chatted about monetary policy in New Zealand. As we’ve noted in the past, measures of price growth are pretty elevated in New Zealand – however, I make the case that RBNZ actions have been relatively appropriate (given uncertainty and the size and nature of the supply/income shock) but […]
Ok, I’m coming permanently out of “proper blogging” retirement. Why? The New Zealand government has decided to cut fuel taxes and RUC due to the “cost of living crisis” in New Zealand – egged on by the opposition and a range of New Zealand thinktanks and “thought leaders”. When a similar spike occurred in 2008 […]
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone, from Gulnara and myself. To celebrate we’ve put up a video characterising two different ways of thinking about gift giving – specifically the conflict between telling someone what gift you want and the nature of a surprise gift. People think and feel very differently about this, and fair enough we all […]