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Demotion, or a second chance?

Cabinet shuffles provide great journalistic set-pieces. For the politics-as-sport contingent, it provides all the narrative arc of changes to the Black Caps line-up for the World Cup: winners and losers, who’s in and who’s out, and whether the changes will do more to help the team score political runs or to defend against the Opposition’s bowling attack. Read more

Dr Eric Crampton
Newsroom
1 July, 2019
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Changing minds

Politicians have a lot of privileges, but one privilege that regular folks have over them is the freedom to change our minds. In an interview with Meet the Press in 1970, economist Paul Samuelson explained his changing views on inflation to a journalist by saying, “Well when events change, I change my mind. Read more

Dr Eric Crampton
Insights Newsletter
28 June, 2019
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Test before you leap

If politics makes it hard to change a policy after it is announced, then testing policies before they are announced has potentially huge benefits. Testing is particularly important in climate change policy as policies vary enormously in performance, and governments have a particularly hard time in backing away from environmental policies that do not work. Read more

Insights Newsletter
28 June, 2019
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Matt Burgess discusses the findings of the ICCC

The Independent Climate Change Committee's (ICCC) report into how New Zealand can reach the 100% renewable energy target seems to suggest the policy will be very expensive and will undermine New Zealand's efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions overall. This is completely in line with findings from our report Switched On! Read more

Mike Hosking Breakfast - Newstalk ZB
25 June, 2019

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