The choice between politicos and wonks is that the politicos are better at attaining and maintaining office, but their policy ...

The Starmer-Reeves Government plans to fund the concessions they made to their revolting caucus have been deferred to the end ...

The asymmetry between borrower and lender is well illustrated by Keynes telling the New Zealand Minister of Finance, William ...

We should not assume that all adopted innovations are p. Jonathon Haidt’s ‘The Anxious Generation’ illustrates that sometimes ...

One option is to cut back on maintenance of your capital – say, to delay repainting the house or keeping the car in tip-top condition. The government does the same. Hence our three water systems ...

We should try to to evaluate our social policies systematically. But big data has limitations. The National Party has promised to reintroduce the idea of ‘social investment’ analysis when it returns ...

Does the Autumn 2024 British budget point to a change in fiscal strategies? Many countries found their fiscal position was unsustainable, following the 2008 Global Financial Crash. Their public ...

Stagnation and ContractionStagnation and Contraction In this column I use the less familiar measure of GDP per capita instead of the GDP measure favoured by the commentariat. I became familiar with it ...

Following the Richardson/Shipley 1990 ‘redesign of the welfare state’ – which eliminated the universal Family Benefit and doubled the rate of child poverty – various income supplements for families ...

The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy. We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on ...