Friday, 29 November 2024
Misuse of land use planning
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If you thought McDonald's was some kind of public health hazard, using processes under the Resource Management Act to try to block one f...
Friday, 8 November 2024
This will not end well
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I still think Rod Carr had this stuff right two decades ago when he'd argued against having deposit insurance at all, and instead making...
Tuesday, 8 October 2024
Where are the food carts?
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I still don't get why there aren't more food carts on Wellington's waterfront. On a good sunny day, you might find, along a stre...
Monday, 7 October 2024
Generation screwed?
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I gave a short talk for a new student group last week, Generation Screwed. The event was joint with Students for Liberty, who seem to be set...
Saturday, 5 October 2024
Rebuilding one bit of state capacity
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New Zealand's immigration bureaucracy isn't in the best of shape. So it's interesting to read this piece from the Niskanen Cen...
Friday, 4 October 2024
What planet are they on?
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New Zealand's newspaper chiefs' views on how the Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill works is somewhat at odds with the text of the Bi...
Saturday, 14 September 2024
Loss aversion or mistakes?
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Super-neat paper coming out in the AER by Ryan Oprea: Decisions under risk are decisions under complexity. The abstract: We provide evidenc...
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