A Hogan Compendium

Here's the complete list of posts by Seamus Hogan. Blogger doesn't make it easy to sort things by author, so I've just pulled them all into this post. I've bolded some of my favourites. They're sorted by category, then by date, with the most recent ones first. If I've missed any, let me know.

Cricket and Sports Economics:

• Is 400 the new 300 in ODIs? 19 June 2015. 
• Bleg: Quantifying the value of bowling variety. 24 March 2015
• Competitive ODI matches. 23 March 2015
• The trouble with Net Run Rate. 19 February 2015
• Aggressive opening batsmen in ODIs. 17 February 2015
• More on Courtsiding. 16 February 2015
• Are ODI Scores Increasing? 2 September 2014
• How unfair is the Super 15 schedule? 26 July 2014
• Irrational expectations in cricket redux. 13 June 2014
• Above was follow-up to (Ir)rational expectations in cricket. 7 March 2012
• FAQ on the WASP. 27 May 2014
• McCullum's 300 and WASP. 18 February 2014
• More cricket: the return of the WASP. 1 November 2013
• What best predicts success in test cricket? 29 October 2013
• Are wickets more likely on hat-trick balls? 23 October 2013
• Still seeing red: Blame the rules not the ref. 16 September 2013
• What if Economics could help cricket teams win matches? 9 May 2013
• 'What If' lecture on cricket. 26 April 2013
• Measuring the influence of golf caddies. 2 May 2013
• Labour economics: golf caddying edition. 19 April 2013
• Declarations and nightwatchmen. 6 March 2013
• Do catches win matches? 31 January 2013
• Cricket and the WASP: Shameless self promotion. 22 November 2012.
• Doing well by doing good: Sports edition. 28 September 2012
• Rules that create the wrong incentives. 26 October 2011 (Rugby World Cup)
• Rights versus trade-offs: RWC edition. 13 October 2011
• Dynamic programming in sport. 27 July 2010
• Seeing red (and yellow) about rugby rules. 19 July 2010
• More on sport and economics. 8 April 2010. Need Commonwealth Games be so pricey?
• Shame on the NZRFU. 7 April 2010
• Economics of optimal taxation applied to sport. 24 March 2010

Capital Gains Taxes. Seamus's argument against capital gains taxes, as best I'm aware, remains unanswered by NZ's CGT proponents.

• Quotes of the Day: Capital Gains Taxes edition. 7 November 2014
• Capital Gains Tax Bleg. 17 September 2014
• Parker vs NZIER on Capital Gains Taxes. 15 September 2014
• Treasury on Capital Gains Taxes. 26 October 2013
• NZIER on fiscal sustainability and Capital Gains Taxes. 24 October 2013
• What is wrong with housing anyway? (Warning: Wonkish) 10 February 2012
• Should capital gains be taxed? 31 October 2011
• Capital Gains Tax Redux. 5 August 2011
• A Diatribe Against Capital Gains Taxes Part II. 3 August 2011
• A Diatribe Against Capital Gains Taxes Part I. 2 August 2011

Taxation more generally.

• A low cost way to help the retailers. 27 March 2015. This is Seamus's ingenious flip that would make applying GST on imports trivially easy: tax exports instead. Lerner symmetry: it works. 
• Paternalistic income taxes. 30 October 2013. Should it matter if excise reduces low-income folks' consumption of things deemed bad via income or substitution effects?
• Messing with the GST. 6 October 2011
• Morgan and Guthrie's modest taxation proposal. 7 September 2011. The best standing critique of Morgan's comprehensive capital tax.
• The case against a dirty GST: Illusory benefits of exclusions. 25 August 2011.
• Gilbert and Sullivan on the politics of alcohol taxes. 6 May 2010.
• More on Ramsey Taxation. 29 April 2010. Why most people just don't understand Ramsey.
• Mankiw versus Ely on the height tax. 5 March 2010
• Oh Treasury, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Us? 31 July 2009. On Treasury getting something important very wrong.

Electricity markets

• Negative electricity prices: bleg. 22 October 2013
• A failed market? 11 October 2013
• The Tiwai Point subsidy. 9 August 2013
• The morality of corporate takings. 6 May 2013
• An open letter to David Shearer and David Parker. 19 April 2013
• The benefits of solar water heating. 27 July 2012
• Reserve generation. 8 December 2011
• A justification for partial asset sales. 21 November 2011
• Electricity "overcharging" again. 19 May 2011.
• Externalising the internality. 22 March 2010
• Should Meridian be made to swap hydro for thermal generation? 21 August 2009
• ETAG report and wholesale competition. 21 August 2009
• Electricity Technical Advisory Group report. 20 August 2009
• Did electricity companies really overcharge by $4.3b? Part 3. 13 August 2009
• Did electricity companies really overcharge by $4.3b? Part 2. 11 August 2009
• Did electricity companies really overcharge by $4.3b? Part 1. 10 August 2009
• Electricity report: Who paid the $4.3b? 28 July 2009
• Should Meridian be privatised? 23 July 2009

NZ Policy and Politics more generally.

• User pays policing? 23 February 2015.
• Why not a teal coalition? 4 September 2014.
• Jobs for Everyone. 3 September 2014
• The Greens' tax and child poverty policy. 18 August 2014.
• Welcome Kirdan. 13 May 2014. (on savings rates and macroeconomic "imbalances")
• Some advice for David Cunliffe. 18 September 2013.
• Yahoo poll on the Minimum Wage. 9 February 2012.
• More on charter schools. 7 December 2011
• What do economists agree about? Election issue. 30 September 2011
• Horrible bosses. 10 August 2011. If we don't want New Zealand to keep shipping all the good managers out, we'll have to put up with a little inequality.
• Labour's Tax Policy. 16 July 2011.
• Is good economics necessarily bad politics? 28 May 2011.
• Why oh why can't we have a better press corps? 24 May 2011
• Phil Goff on monetary policy. 13 May 2010.
• What do alcohol and electricity have in common? 15 July 2009

Housing

• Why do all political parties hate renters so much? 25 August 2014
• In which we welcome Shamubeel Eaqub and revisit an old chestnut. 13 August 2013 (Kiwisaver and housing)
• Affordable housing: five basic principles. 2 August 2013
• Labour's housing policy. 29 July 2013
• More on housing affordability: Supply versus demand. 9 November 2012
• Gareth Morgan on housing affordability. 30 October 2012
• What is wrong with housing anyway? (Warning: Wonkish) 10 February 2012

Economics

• So what *is* the most misleading term in Economics? 27 May 2015
• Is Pareto optimality the most misleading definition in economics? 25 May 2015
• Remembering Gary Becker. 12 May 2014
• Broken windows, Part II: Will a disaster rebuild increase capacity utilisation? 5 September 2013
• Broken windows, Part I: Measured GDP vs welfare. 4 September 2013
• In defence of simplistic models. 31 August 2013. (housing markets, and modelling more generally)
• Can tax and subsidy incidence really be negative? 16 May 2013 (Seamus tries to work through the contradictions in Gareth Morgan's thinking)
• Increasing consumer surplus through price increases. 7 May 2013. University parking...
• More on exchange rates. 17 October 2012. In which Seamus chides me a little, though I don't really think we were disagreeing. 
• Popcorn, parking, exercise and the Theory of the Second Best
• Early prediction markets. 10 November 2011
• Should we teach IS/LM? 11 October 2011
• Game theory naming rights (geek post). 21 September 2011
• The lies we tell. 31 August 2011
• Offering the other kid's bat. 14 July 2011.
• Natural disasters and GDP for National Income Accounting Nerds. 18 June 2011
• Economic impact studies. 23 June 2010. What question are these things seeking to answer?
• On the impossibility of the protectionist calculation. 17 March 2010
• Canadian Economics 3. 16 March 2010. Liquidity traps, Canada, and New Zealand
• Canadian Economics 2. 16 March 2010. On the public service there.
• A word after the final word on rationality. 9 July 2009. Seamus's inaugural post.

The move to Wellington

• Wellington bleg: good high schools for music. 17 October 2014. The Hogans wound up in Broadmeadows to take advantage of Onslow College.

The merits of the programme-that-was at Canterbury

• Feeling Chuffed Again. 2 March 2015
• Feeling Chuffed. 12 September 2014

Oh, Christchurch.

• Local workers first. 19 October 2012. Or, should the rebuild really be about make-work?
• More thoughts on the Christchurch plan. 1 August 2012
• New City Mall. 8 November 2011
• Random thoughts on the quake. 19 June 2011.
• A thesis waiting to be written. 4 June 2011.

Miscellany

• Against Scottish independence. 9 September 2014
• Remembering Mel Smith. 22 July 2013
• More Glaeser. 26 June 2013
• Honi soit qui mal y pense. 2 April 2013
• Conference wrap up. 16 July 2012
• NZAE annual conference. 8 May 2012
• Occupy protests and Econ 203. 7 November 2011
• A worthwhile Canadian initiative. 4 October 2011: bilingual anthems.
• Offsetting turns agony aunt. 17 August 2011
• Frederic Bastiat or Paul Henry? 19 July 2011
• A post about serious issues. 12 July 2011 (NZAE conference)
• Gunslinging and shooting yourself in the foot. 13 June 2011.
• Shameless advertising. 10 May 2011
• I'm Back! 4 March 2010. In which Seamus returns after a HoDly hiatus. 
• Global warming bleg: final update. 29 September 2009. On methane and the steady state.
• Global warming bleg: update. 7 September 2009.
• Global warming bleg. 3 September 2009.

It all counted for, as Seamus might have put it, three-fifths of five-eights of bugger all for PBRF, but there's some great stuff in there.

And I will particularly miss his habit of emailing me pointing out errors in posts I've had in draft. I'll have to rely more heavily on post-posting review by readers leaving comment.

My NBR column on Seamus is here; the post of 18 July is here. His family are collecting memorial notes here. 

And here's Seamus's lecture on cricket, economics and the WASP.