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Via Geoff Simmons came this interesting post about new health policy in New Zealand. This isn’t my area of expertise, but I found the post really insightful – I’d definitely recommend it as a read. However, a small part of the post did spark my imagination, and will lead me to write on a loosely […]
I’m not quite sure how to take these comments by Gareth Morgan – once they’ve written up some more details of their experience they will likely point out that they are talking about the individuals and communities in North Korea. In this way they will be talking about the amazing way these people are trying […]
I have heard a bunch of criticism of the Spirit Level book based on its “sample” and “cheery picking” (Note: This started life as a typo, but I liked it and used it throughout 😛 ). I’ve decided to ignore that, and to read the book on the merits it gave in the text. Given […]
Here are some posts I like, that I want to be in a blog post so I can find them later 🙂 Mainly macro on helicopter money at the ZLB. Noahpinion on DSGE models. Brennan McDonald adding some points on judging policy. Update: On DSGE models, this result from the NY Fed is surprisingly positive […]
This piece on the dangers of K2 has clearly indicated to me, as a concerned citizen, that something must be done. I think it is pretty obvious to everyone what has to be done here … we need to legalise other drugs. From what I can tell, K2 is inferior to other drugs for the […]
Personally, I love movies about epic historical dramas, or potatoes – but this is hardly representative of economists. And when it comes to economics two things hold true: Economists actually agree about a lot more things than people realise. Many of the things people think we agree upon we don’t. With this in mind I […]