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What is the value of cycling?🍋
An avid cyclist explores the economics of cycling in New Zealand
Jun 4
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Geoff Simmons
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What is the value of cycling?🍋
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May 2025
Social opportunity cost vs. social rate of time preference [part 2/2]🍋
The NZ Treasury's new approach to public-sector discount rates applied to risky projects
May 19
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Martin Lally
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Social opportunity cost vs. social rate of time preference [part 2/2]🍋
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Social opportunity cost vs. social rate of time preference [part 1/2]🍋
The NZ Treasury's new approach to public-sector discount rates applied to risk-free projects
May 19
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Martin Lally
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Social opportunity cost vs. social rate of time preference [part 1/2]🍋
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2B RED: From down home🍋
Reviews of books by New Zealand authors
May 14
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Grant Scobie
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2B RED: From down home🍋
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April 2025
Has the Treasury produced a lemon?🍋
New discount rates for cost-benefit analysis
Apr 19
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Dieter Katz
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Has the Treasury produced a lemon?🍋
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Can the Budget look after itself?🍋
The Treasury’s long-term insights briefing
Apr 14
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Patrick Nolan
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Explode, reuse, recycle🍋
The changing economics of space launch
Apr 5
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Dave Heatley
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Explode, reuse, recycle🍋
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March 2025
2B RED: Productivity isn’t everything, but …🍋
NZ agonises over its poor performance. A look to the past offers some useful ideas.
Mar 29
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Grant Scobie
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Announcing the 2025 NZAE Conference — 25-27 June in Wellington🍋
Registrations open 26 March. Abstract submissions now open, closing 2 April
Mar 15
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John Saunders
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Announcing the 2025 NZAE Conference — 25-27 June in Wellington🍋
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February 2025
Should council rates use land or capital values?🍋
Reporting back on the 11th NZAE member survey
Feb 18
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Dennis Wesselbaum
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Should council rates use land or capital values?🍋
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How state capacity (or a lack of it) shaped the pandemic's outcomes🍋
Australia's Pandemic Exceptionalism, by Steven Hamilton and Richard Holden, has lessons for New Zealand too
Feb 8
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Ron Crawford
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How state capacity (or a lack of it) shaped the pandemic's outcomes🍋
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December 2024
2B RED: A rainy day at the bach🍋
A few books that might appeal for summer holiday reading
Dec 28, 2024
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Grant Scobie
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2B RED: A rainy day at the bach🍋
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