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When I was a student a lecturer said to us “When analysing trade, does it make sense for us to assume everyone is the same? If everyone was the same why would they trade with each other?“. This is simultaneous a bit of a silly question and a useful one. He answered that they wouldn’t, […]
There have been blog posts about centre-Green parties (on TVHE here, here, here), I’m a bit fatigued with politics right now and want to focus on my research so I don’t want to get into that. One thing I keep hearing, repeatedly, about a centre-Green party is that it doesn’t make sense because it involves […]
David Grimmond writes about the old Chicago Plan, written up following the Great Depression (Infometrics link). Given the way it is described by the IMF he believe it: There are many other examples of low lying fruit in the policy domain where a combination of entrenched interests and innate conservatism inhibits movements to welfare enhancing […]
Over at The Standard I noticed this defence of the recent living wage calculations from the two critiques that had popped up (which I linked to here). The key points seem to be: The living wage concept was being defined in a different way by critics – making the attacks a wee bit of a […]
Over at Polity Rob Salmond has promised us the truth about the gap between NZ’s rich and the rest (via Toby Manhire)! This would be encouraging, given the complexity of the data. I just want to say at the start I have full respect for people who want to discuss these important issues, including the […]
With the Living Wage idea cropping up around the place, I’ve noticed a couple of places where there have been criticisms of the result: A review by Brian Scott, where he points out that many of the defined “needs” required to get this wage are in fact not things some people in society would put […]