Date registered: November 29, 2008
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James Zuccollo is an economist at NZIER.
Nov
07
2011
Apparently fiscal forecasts are the cool new thing to blog about since both major parties are talking about them. As the frantic blogging shows, even political commentators are getting excited about their spreadsheets at the moment. However, the only consensus so far is that nobody really knows who’s right about what. Thankfully economists have a …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2011/11/07/fun-with-fiscal-forecasting/
Nov
04
2011
Well, shame on Greg Mankiw for failing to cover the eternal battle between the adherents of Smith and Keynes in his 101 course. More interestingly, he also reposted this from FlowingData.
Permanent link to this article: http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2011/11/04/more-mankiw/
Nov
04
2011
It appears that the mainstay of NZAE’s recent blogging efforts, Bill Kaye-Blake, now has a blog of his own: Groping towards Bethlehem. No doubt full of enthusiasm from the joy of blogging he decided he needed an outlet where he can talk about Meat Loaf, post-modern cliches, psycho-analysis, and welfare reform; a more idiosyncratic blend …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2011/11/04/nzae-blog-splits/
Nov
01
2011
Phil Goff: [There is] no businessperson in New Zealand that would say when you are in difficulty the best thing you could do is sell off your best-performing assets. At least both major parties now agree that that the election is all about finding a new CE to run NZ Inc. What a shame we’re …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2011/11/01/goff-and-key-agree-on-something/
Aug
29
2011
Matt blogs every now and then defending economic forecasters and always seems to draw out at least a couple of comments slagging off forecasters for being inaccurate. His reponse is that it’s not the numbers that matter but the qualitative analysis of risks and market direction. His defence came to mind when I was reading …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2011/08/29/whats-the-point-of-forecasts/
Aug
24
2011
What is a ‘want’ and what is a ‘need’? Do these things change over time and how do we provide for them? These are the issues being considered by Pablo at Kiwipolitico in a fashion that may confuse many economists. He says: The current phase of globalised capitalism brought with it the uncoupling of production …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2011/08/24/wants-needs-and-production/
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