One option is to cut back on maintenance of your capital – say, to delay repainting the house or keeping the car in tip-top ...

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

The Government’s plans to remove the wellbeing provisions in the Public Finance Act represents a reversal of the way society is travelling.

She may have progressed our understanding of women in the economy but that has not resolved all the issues. A woman who was once chief executive of New Zealand’s biggest company said ‘It is true that ...

ACT ‘s neoliberals are still trying to sneak in a change to the constitution. When ACT – the Association of Consumers and Taxpayers – was formed, its then party leader, Roger Douglas, with an ...

Implementing the New Zealand Health and Disability System review not only involves major technical problems but creates fascinating political tensions. The government is promising to redisorganise the ...

While many of the world’s Christian religions seem preoccupied with personal issues that Jesus, their founder, barely touched upon, they must engage with economic issues too. Robert Prevost, chose the ...

This year’s Nobel awards in economics raise critical issues about the future of the world. I was not alone with high hopes when the Soviet Union collapsed. It has been good to see various nations ...

The system would work by families choosing to go onto a different tax code – let’s call it the Family Tax Code (FTC) – which involved their paying 39 percent on all their market income. Additionally, ...

The book I am currently working on – tentative title ‘In Open Seas’ – looks at the current and future New Zealand. One chapter describes the policy towards Covid using the trope of warfare. It covers ...