Insights
Moving beyond the pandemic
Covid dominated the headlines in 2021, other policy areas received less attention than deserved. So, what will 2022 bring?
Month: December 2021
Newsroom
Do politicians need economics degrees?
Perhaps high office holders do not need a higher education, let alone an economics degree. But they should at least know, and respect, the limits of their power.
The New Zealand Herald
Social insurance lessons from Germany
Would we really like to end up with an arrangement that puts a massive wedge between people’s gross and net incomes? A system, by the way, that also harms employment outcomes, especially for the most vulnerable?
Insights
Unemployment insurance is anti-social
Were the innocently titled ‘social unemployment insurance’ better understood, the project would be gone by lunchtime.