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

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

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

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...

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

A few bits I've neglected to blog. My chat with Adam Jarvis on datacentres .  A follow-up chat with RCR on the same thing, as well as a ...

In today's inbox: Hello Eric, My name is [redacted].  I read your article about prediction market regulation with interest. As a student...