RNZ reports on the potential effects of the ban on coal in industrial heating. Fonterra supported the ban. Smaller industrial users didn...

Susan Edmunds at Stuff asked me what effect Labour's proposed new tax rate on earnings above $180k might have on the usual "people ...

Richard Harris spent a bit of time going through firm-level panel data on NZ firms, looking at the productivity frontier here and the distan...

 Leigh-Marama McLachlan notes one of the bizarre things about renting in New Zealand. After encouraging me not to stress about inspections, ...

Neil Gaiman had an excellent short story, published back in 1989, imagining some of the dangers of a determined bargain-seeker. Peter Pinter...

It isn't hard to imagine that the Department of Conservation might have good reason to want to know whether a big film crew, for example...

If you can credibly commit to punishing, you won't have to do it. If you can't, then you'll have to, but you won't be able t...