I'll be talking with the students in the Masters "Advanced Applications in Finance and Economics" on writing in economics.
I figured I should look back over the columns I'd written this year. There are more of them than I'd thought. I've bolded some of the better ones. I'm sure I forgot to blog some of these; apologies.
- Rising living costs hitting the poorest: look at the policy choices that got us there. [Dom Post]
- Covid and Great Policy Resets? Start with housing. [Newsroom]
- Puke Ariki and the Mothers of Invention [Insights]
- What if the best way of reducing NZ's net emissions is by planting trees elsewhere? Landsburg's Iowa Car Crop applied to emissions trading. [Newsroom]
- The Covid job losses that didn't happen [Dom]
- Want to get into New Zealand through MIQ? If the Aristocracy of Pull is on your side... [Insights]
- Missing the obvious at the border and the cheems mindset [Newsroom]
- Building Better Borders [Insights] [And see also my chat with Rako's Leon Grice]
- Street-level upzoning [Dom] [And catch my chat with Bryan Crump about it]
- Economists only found the errors in Reinhart and Rogoff because their data was open. The Climate Commission's modelling, meanwhile... [Newsroom]
- Meatball surgery and the Covid response: the After-M*A*S*H [Insights] [I hit similar themes in my talk at the Waikato Economics Forum]
- Emissions trading and remembering the target. [Dom]
- That umbrella, we employed it - by August we were an indoor area subject to a vaping ban [Insights] [And see my submission on the vaping regulations]
- Remember when Mr Burns became a recycling convert? Consider the Ministry of Health and vaping. [Newsroom]
- Want a recipe for conflict over congestible tourist-facing places? Simple. Refuse to charge for access. [Dom]
- End the 'wartime' policy responses. [Newsroom]
- Funding Councils [Insights]
- In praise of paper roads [Dom]
- Stronger borders [Insights] [And a podcast chat about strengthened safety measures that should have accompanied a TransTasman bubble]
- New Zealand's geologic risk is unavoidable. Don't compound it with policy risk. [Newsroom] [See also my short note with Bryce]
- What's at the heart of Let's Get Wellington Moving? It isn't transport. [Insights]
- Wishing for proper parametric earthquake insurance. [Dom]
- Focusing on public health [Newsroom]
- What if the real problem is that we don't have enough local councils? [Dom]
- Voiding vaccine patents won't vaccinate developing countries. [Newsroom] [And catch my chats with Bryan Crump and Graeme Jarvis on the same topic]
- Stare not at the Brussels lest the Brussels stare back [Insights]
- If only the Fair Trading Act applied to Immigration New Zealand [Dom] [And catch my chats with Wallace and the RNZ Panel, and with Kate Hawkseby at Newstalk, on the same issue]
- Productivity and Budget 2021 [Insights]
- Ring-fencing ETS revenues and a Carbon Dividend [Newsroom]
- The case for congestion charges [Dom] [See also my submission and my later chat with Wallace on RNZ's The Panel]
- The government isn't risk-averse at the border. It's worse than that. [Insights] [See also my podcast chat with Josh Gans on Covid policy and my chat with Jesse Mulligan at RNZ]
- What's left for councils when the water's gone? [Newsroom]
- Film subsidies and campaign finance. If the government subsidised a film about a politician, would it be a campaign donation? [Dom]
- Feebate follies [Insights] [And you'll really want to hear the chat we had with the Financial Services Federation's Lyn McMorran about this mess.]
- Electric vehicles, subsidies, and keyhole surgery [Newsroom]
- Debt limits and prudent approaches in imprudent times [Dom] [And my chat with Wallace Chapman on The Panel on similar topics]
- Planning for the Covid years [Newsroom]
- Decriminalisation and reducing harm [Insights]
- Fixing the carbon price cap [Dom]
- Bomb the city to save it - heritage edition [Insights]
- Bring heritage onto the balance sheet [Newsroom] [And discussion with Anna Thomas on RNZ Nights]
- Penny wise, pound foolish. Don't scrimp on vaccines. [Insights]
- New Zealand and the post-Covid future [Dom]
- Want more supermarket competition? Break the zoning cartel. [BusinessDesk]
- Kiwigrocer's Catch-22 [Newsroom] [And our later submission on the topic]
- The End of the Beginning - the vaccine rollout [Insights] [And catch our chat with Des Gorman on similar issues]
- Deciding how to decide about transport [Dom]
- Political pull and MIQ allocations. [Newsroom]
- Get it done: Auckland's new lockdown [Insights]
- Freshwater protection that's fit for purpose [Dom] [And my report on same]
- Second-hand smoke and second-hand Covid [Insights] [And our submission on the smoking rules]
- Fresher Water [Insights]
- Better testing systems can allow antigen testing [Newsroom] [And catch our later webinar with Yale's Anne Wyllie!]
- There are no answers, only tradeoffs [Insights]
- Vaccine mandates need legal clarity [Dom]
- Chernobyl and the merits of openness [Newsroom]
- That we all be vaccinated [Insights] [Oh, I got so much hate mail from the anti-vaxers. So I chatted with Bryan Crump about it on Nights]
- The Ease of Dodgy Business [Dom]
- A beautiful end-run around council: the Squamish example [Dom]
- Vaccine Certificates and the New Normal [NZ Herald] [And my report on strengthening Covid policy and a podcast chat on the same issue]
- And then, we hope, we all win. [Insights] [And my submission on the same issue, urging that the government not give itself the power to just steal all of Rako's testing capacity]
- Beware of the Leopard, and of the Ministry of Health [Newsroom]
- Fixing local government: the slow-burn [Dom]
- An entry pitch [Insights]
- Of intensive care and trolley cars [Newsroom] [And my chat with Heather Du Plessis-Allan about it]
- A Curley election question [Insights]
- Making climate finance pay by striking the root of the problem [Dom]
- We will miss central bank independence when it is gone [Newsroom] [And see my webinar with John Cochrane on the same topic]
- Believing fairy tales [Insights]
- Failing the Covid testing test [Dom]
- Three houses of up to three stories, and a supermarket [Insights] [See also my submission on the housing intensification legislation, and my second submission on the ComCom supermarket inquiry. And my chat with Bryan at Nights on similar issues.]
- Smokefree 2025 and a looming black market [Newsroom]
- Paxlovid Paradoxes [Insights]
- Medsafe Delenda Est? [Dom]
- Prudential Climate Reservations [Insights]
- Tyranny of distance and of Zoom [Newsroom]
- A Christmas wish for righting an old Festivus grievance [Insights]
- Offers that should be refused [Dom]
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