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Stephen Jennings dinner address

The New Zealand Initiative hosted Stephen Jennings for a dinner lecture on Thursday 14 July 2016, in Auckland. Jennings, the Taranaki-born economist and investor, has spent the past 24 years outside New Zealand. Read more

14 July, 2016

Height restrictions just dense

With most major political parties in favour of scrapping urban growth boundaries, land use regulations have captured a fair number of headlines over the past few weeks. And well they should. Read more

Interest.co.nz
12 July, 2016

Pavlovian responses to inequality

New inequality statistics are a bit like Pavlov’s bell. Even the hint of them can induce salivation – regardless of whether the meal winds up being meaty in the end. Read more

The National Business Review
8 July, 2016
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The value of big oafs

With just about everyone proffering advice to post-Brexit Britain, it is unlikely the country will pay attention to this piece. And nor should it, given that Britain will soon be truly free to thumb its nose at advice givers. Read more

Insights Newsletter
8 July, 2016

A mess of its own making

There was a whiff of Monty Python about the Brexit referendum. In Life of Brian, the People’s Front of Judea asks the famous question: “What have the Romans ever done for us?” As it turns out, very little – apart from providing Judea with sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, public health and peace. Read more

Dr Oliver Hartwich
The National Business Review
1 July, 2016
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Gambling on your child's education

Imagine if you were buying your first home and the only information you had was what you could see from the outside and through the windows. It may seem odd, but this is largely what happens in our public schools. Read more

Insights Newsletter
1 July, 2016

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