Victoria University's panel on free speech at universities seemed designed to be tedious, providing the smallest target for criticisms o...

The closing of the tabs... Transport is in the ETS. Therefore, bus networks do not need decarbonisation strategies. Councils can just assess...

The afternoon's worthies: How universities killed the academic . Great piece.  NZ Drug Foundation's report on drug use in 2022/23 . ...

The tabs! “ Is it unfair on everybody else that has paid for that road and doesn't use it? I mean, this equity stuff's bollocks, thi...

The tabs! Universities continue to be very quick to cancel events.   NZ Pharmacists warn that if the $5 co-pay on prescriptions returns, cus...

The morning's worthies. Medsafe allows low-dose CBD over-the-counter. +1 for Medsafe. Unfortunately, no CBD products are here approved ...

The tabs... Earthquake strengthening costs on one Wellington performance venue have increased from $90m to $182m and now to $329m ( Dom , He...

The tabs. There are too many. Dan Brunskill asks 20 economists how they'd define recession . A bunch of us pointed to how NBER does thin...

I cannot count the tabs. A pruning: Danyl Mclauchlan on the depressing kludgeocratic budget. I still don't like that they're subsidi...

The accumulated worthies: Dave Heatley on the publicly-provided goods that should, and should not, draw user charges - and how to tell the d...

It's been a while since last posting. The tabs... Gita Gopinath on Covid's lessons for inflation and central banking Long-Covi...

Leave aside for the moment noble intentions and think through effects.  Academics have discretion over what research questions get pursued, ...

Minor notes on the closing of the browser tabs: Andre Brett asks good questions about Auckland rail . Don't agree with some of the concl...

The computer begs to be rebooted. But the tabs... There's an underlying demand-side problem to misinformation. You can't con an hone...

A closing of some the browser tabs brings a few worthies: Roland Fryer Was Railroaded Brian Easton on the perils of ignoring economics Pay f...

The Free Speech Union was kind enough to share the data from their survey of NZ academics on academic freedom.  Their survey compared means ...

The closing of the browser tabs: The Niskanen Center goes through the problems with intellectual property . They remind that independent re-...

Australia's reopening to international students. New Zealand isn't.  This is just getting crazy.  There are safe protocols that can ...

Jack Heinemann's take on academic freedom in New Zealand provides an excellent on-campus recruitment opportunity for New Zealand's ...

David Farrar points to some changes coming for PBRF .  Evidence portfolios submitted by Māori (and Pacific) staff will have a 2.5 (2.0) fund...