Economics New Zealand

I'm no fan of regional development as a policy priority - a remote sparsely populated country of five million people ought to be putting...

"Increased competition in the business marketplace", I wrote in a post last year ( 'How competition benefits women's pay...

I've just finished John Gibney's A Short History of Ireland, 1500-2000 (Yale University Press, 2017). Near the end (pp236-7) he rec...

Yesterday evening in Wellington the Law and Economics Association of New Zealand (LEANZ, here's its spiffy new website ), put on its lat...

There's been a lot of focus on what looks like a large $7.5 billion fiscal surplus in the fiscal year just ended. Part of it, as Treasur...

Little did I know, when I got antsy the other day about where the electricity price review had got to, that Dr Megan Woods, the Minister of...

Every couple of years the OECD updates its Going For Growth reports , which are meant to be its best policy advice to governments on how to...

A year ago, in the interest of making competition work, we switched our electricity supplier ( 'We take the plunge' ). And now that ...