Will the Living Standards Framework replace budgetary analysis?
The Treasury should clarify the relationship between its Living Standards Framework and mainstream cost benefit analysis.
The Treasury should clarify the relationship between its Living Standards Framework and mainstream cost benefit analysis.
That’s what we should tell cheating students (and some developing economies): Don’t do it!
Competition law has been with us since the Sherman Act (1890).
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Most economists would agree that for this reason companies never really pay tax at all.
Two Danish economists show economic growth and reform, not redistribution, is the best way to reduce income disparities.
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Solving public issues through private initiative and civic-mindedness, property rights and freedom of contract the New Zealand way.
It is not as if any new books were required to remind us of the fragile state of the world economy.
Imagine if both local and central government tax revenues reflected economic performance more directly.
© Dr Oliver Hartwich