Year: 2017

There is a world of good policy ideas out there. Whoever wins tomorrow’s election, let’s hope they engage with it.

Even those civic-minded idealists among us who still believe in democracy must admit that election times are the worst for sound and creative policy thinking.

To sum up the Mood of the Boardroom, there is an appetite for change in the business community. Not necessarily in a party-political sense but certainly in policy terms.

The only hole we have in fiscal plans is independent scrutiny of Government’s and the parties’ numbers.

“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else.”

This New Zealand election has already surprised observers by being less predictable than anyone would have imagined. An unexpected coalition outcome would be a fitting conclusion to it.

By all means, let’s increase our schools’ language teaching capacity. But let’s do it properly.

Avocados have become a cultural phenomenon which leaves economists puzzled.