Ruth Richardson, former NZ Finance Minister and largely responsible for pushing through the second necessary set of economic reforms in the ...

According to foodservice consultancy Technomic, consumers are also being driven to excess by cultural moralizing over nutrition. That is, a...

From Saturday's Christchurch Press. The light green box is my guess about where our house is relative to the three main fault lines. I...

There were few surprises in the policy announced Thursday, as much of it had already been announced or clearly foreshadowed. The key policie...

“Offering the other kid’s bat” is a metaphor I use in my welfare economics class for a certain type of government policy. The reference is t...

Here's the presentation I gave at the NZAE meetings in Wellington. I'm tidying a few typos in the paper there delivered; it'll b...

A post meant for tomorrow managed to hit the RSS feed this morning; watch for it tomorrow!