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Something Must Be Done. This Is Something.🍋
Dave Heatley writes that the politics of fuel shocks so often outruns the economics
 • Dave Heatley
Pear shaped🍋
How would designer Enzo Mari reimagine a pear packing factory?
 • Olivia Wills
Administrative identity is not what matters🍋
What would philosopher Derek Parfit make of the Integrated Data Infrastructure?
 • Olivia Wills
Are capital gains taxes fair?🍋
NZ lacks a specific capital gains tax. But introducing one may not increase fairness.
 • Martin Lally
Property rights and competitive prices🍋
Two current flashpoints for the role of government in a market economy
 • Caroline Saunders and Paul Dalziel
When I'm sixty-four🍋
An economic perspective on ageing
 • Dave Heatley
Information quality, punishments and income inequality🍋
When information is unreliable, punishment often misses its mark
 • Sanket Sen and ProfAnanish
What is the value of cycling?🍋
An avid cyclist explores the economics of cycling in New Zealand
 • Geoff Simmons
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
 • Martin Lally
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
 • Martin Lally
Has the Treasury produced a lemon?🍋
New discount rates for cost-benefit analysis
 • Dieter Katz
Can the Budget look after itself?🍋
The Treasury’s long-term insights briefing
 • Patrick Nolan
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