Thursday, 30 May 2013

The Auckland housing market, revisited

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I'm a great believer in 'economics by walking around', just as the management theorists are fond of 'management by walking a...

A thought experiment about charter schools and competition

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Charter schools are, obviously, in the news. The latest development is an open letter  sent to all MPs arguing against them, and saying, amo...

Is bad news the only news?

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Last night I watched  the BBC World News, on Sky. And it had a major hooha about sharp falls in the Japanese stock market. The big news, app...
Tuesday, 28 May 2013

France and the ratings agencies

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Three articles in the online May 27 issue of La Tribune  won't bring much joy to people worried about the Eurozone's economic outloo...
Monday, 27 May 2013

World famous in The Guardian

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There I was, browsing through the online Guardian (May 26 edition), and I came across an excerpt from a new book by celebrity restaurant and...
Saturday, 25 May 2013

Measuring the degree of competition

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It got surprisingly little media or analyst coverage, but last Tuesday (21st) the Electricity Authority released the results of the latest s...
Wednesday, 22 May 2013

The perks of office

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For six weeks in 1987 (as I mentioned in the previous post) I got seconded to the Leader of the Opposition's office as an economic advis...

The political economy of opposition

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I've been thinking about the Labour/Green proposals to introduce a monopoly purchaser of electricity, as a mooted way of driving electri...