I will be doing a free presentation to the blogsphere in Auckland on December 2, followed by a Wellington presentation on December 10. You guys have been good to me, challenging my preconceptions and helping me to develop my ideas understand (ideas was a stupid term – I never come up with anything original, I …
Category Archive: New Zealand Economics
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Nov
18
2011
A minimum income can replace a minimum wage
That is the suggestion here from Gareth Morgan. I agree of course, I have said the same thing here before – both when raising what my policy platform would be and discussing the minimum wage more recently. It is fine to disagree with this and say “only people who are part of the labour market …
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Nov
17
2011
A point on NGDP targeting and inflation expectations
I’m increasingly hearing people call for an NGDP target. I’m not really convinced it is superior to inflation/price level targeting to be honest. Let me discuss below.
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Nov
16
2011
The top 1%: A few facts
There have been protests about the amount of income going to the top 1%. In of itself, I have never thought we could tell too much about what is the “right” distribution of income with a certain number – after all, we would expect the top 1% to have significantly more income in some sense. …
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Nov
11
2011
Why the minimum wage trade-off is important for the left and right
When it comes to conclusions about the broad labour market that are accepted world wide, the idea that a higher minimum wage leads to lower levels of total employment is one of the most accepted. That is why it was interesting to see Patrick Gower suggest that Treasury didn’t believe this was the case – …
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Nov
10
2011
More on occupying Wellington
People who read the blog will remember how vehemently opposed to the occupation of the Reserve Bank I was. And I stick to that – every word, even the misspelt ones. But I’m glad to see that this isn’t how the movement has evolved. From what I can tell the focus is very much on …
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