Offsetting Behaviour
Thursday, 10 September 2026

The case for unilateral recognition

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Bilateral, plurilateral, and multilateral are words that New Zealand's civil service love. There is nothing that can't be improved b...
Wednesday, 9 September 2026

Migration or Stagnation

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Michael Clemens shows that a rise in noncitizen worker prevalence in Korea from 3% to about 14% over four decades would offset the effect o...
Tuesday, 8 September 2026

Potential deregulations

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Cato's Handbook on Affordability provides a set of policy recommendations for reducing unnecessary government-imposed costs.  There'...
Wednesday, 2 September 2026

For a sense of proportion: datacentre water use

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I like this chart, from Andreas Heuser and Phil Whittington's excellent piece making the case for datacentres . Nobody has a sense of pe...
Tuesday, 1 September 2026

Disappointing - Updated

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The ACT Party has announced a new policy that would : Remove the existing Permanent Resident visa category; Require all Resident Visa holder...
Friday, 28 August 2026

Hating trees

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New Zealand's Zero Carbon Act sets net emission targets.  This is sensible. The atmosphere does not care whether the next tonne of CO2-e...
Monday, 24 August 2026

An economics without trade-offs

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One reasonable definition of economics is the study of choice under conditions of scarcity, or choice under constraint. When getting more of...
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