A friend asked about my zealotry on age-gating social media and why internet anonymity/pseudonymity should be protected.  I sent this throug...

Locked at the bottom of a dark well is a beautiful-looking idea.  "Set discount rates to very low levels when thinking about intergener...

Being able to speak online freely, under a pseudonym, is an important backstop for freedom of speech. If government turns repressive, or ban...

Last week, on The Platform, Auckland Uni's Prof of Macroeconomics blamed my shop for the government's not adopting his proposal to c...

Kerry Howley has a superb piece in New York Magazine on the kids in San Francisco building the future. Houses and motels turned into dorms ...

In some respects it's reasonable to think about city council as being a kind of club. Everyone who owns property in Wellington is a memb...

Recall that New Zealand issues industrial allocations under the ETS to avoid inefficient carbon leakage.  Basically, if emissions are charge...