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Comments for TVHE http://www.tvhe.co.nz The Visible Hand in Economics Fri, 13 Dec 2024 12:14:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Comment on Pandemic preferences – the case of housing by Anonymous http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2024/03/13/pandemic-preferences-the-case-of-housing/#comment-43861 Fri, 19 Apr 2024 09:11:02 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=14715#comment-43861 Great article. This made me think of Simak’s City short stories. Particularly the first story in the series, where nuclear power, personal air travel, and instant long-distance communication killed off cities. Instead everyone lives in the equivalent of the lifestyle block.

Coming from the horrors of World War Two, Simak believed the city was an anachronism that humanity would be better without. He believed poor communication and travel were the only reasons cities persisted. Now we don’t have personal air travel yet, but communication is certainly lightyears ahead now.

Yet cities have persisted. It will be interesting to see if there is a step change here or whether COVID was just a blip.

]]> Comment on New Year, New Steam Sale by Anonymous http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2024/02/21/new-year-new-steam-sale/#comment-43860 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 07:18:15 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=14711#comment-43860 And interestingly, it was free for a week on Epic Game Store some time ago!

]]> Comment on Was the Aussie 2023/24 Budget inflationary? by Was the New Zealand 2023/24 Budget inflationary? – TVHE http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2023/05/10/was-the-aussie-2023-24-budget-inflationary/#comment-43853 Thu, 18 May 2023 21:00:27 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=14631#comment-43853 […] answer is “no idea” – I just wanted to use the same title as the Australian Budget post. You yell inflation at me and I say “monetary policy offset through higher interest […]

]]> Comment on Effective tax rates by How much does benefit abatement influence labour supply? – TVHE http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2023/04/27/effective-tax-rates/#comment-43852 Wed, 17 May 2023 21:30:41 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=14564#comment-43852 […] do I read these without going through this excessively long blog post? The effective marginal tax rate (EMTR) noted here tells us that, if someone worked for an extra […]

]]> Comment on Assessing benefit eligibility and adequacy by Should we offer higher benefits to those over 55? – TVHE http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2023/05/02/assessing-eligibility-and-adequacy/#comment-43851 Wed, 03 May 2023 22:00:08 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=14559#comment-43851 […] the last blog post I noted that there were rumors of a higher benefit rate for those over 55. Since then we’ve […]

]]> Comment on How adequate are unemployment benefits? A new perspective by Assessing benefit eligibility and adequacy – TVHE http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2023/04/25/how-adequate-are-unemployment-benefits-a-new-perspective/#comment-43850 Mon, 01 May 2023 23:00:34 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=14550#comment-43850 […] week we’d been chatting about the unemployment benefit in Australia and the reasons why some unemployed people don’t get it, while some people who aren’t […]

]]> Comment on Effective tax rates by What is income for tax? – TVHE http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2023/04/27/effective-tax-rates/#comment-43849 Sun, 30 Apr 2023 21:00:34 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=14564#comment-43849 […] leave out the idea of whether we consider government transfers as income – because we already chatted about this here. Cliff notes – if we are talking about the “progressivity of the tax system” they […]

]]> Comment on How adequate are unemployment benefits? A new perspective by Does JobSeeker go to JobSeekers? – TVHE http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2023/04/25/how-adequate-are-unemployment-benefits-a-new-perspective/#comment-43848 Tue, 25 Apr 2023 23:00:09 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=14550#comment-43848 […] yesterday’s pitch and related tweet thread, I was keen to dig a bit more into elements of the first note from this […]

]]> Comment on Excise taxes and policy incoherence in New Zealand by NZ Public Service and Economics – TVHE http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2022/03/15/excise-taxes-and-policy-incoherence-in-new-zealand/#comment-43845 Fri, 01 Apr 2022 19:30:15 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=14277#comment-43845 […] with Eric Crampton noting a lack of trained economists in government as a key concern. Given the recent incoherent experience of rushed policy and advice on fuel taxes this seems like quite a pertinent […]

]]> Comment on Price controls and inflation – is this time different? by Firms are greedy, but that isn’t the reason for inflation – TVHE http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2022/01/04/price-controls-and-inflation-is-this-time-different/#comment-43844 Mon, 21 Mar 2022 19:30:37 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=14229#comment-43844 […] earlier post here on “price controls” discusses a number of specific matters in more detail, but I think a higher level discussion would also be useful. To that end, I thought […]

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