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Media release: NZIER report vindicates The New Zealand Initiative’s criticisms of WorkSafe NZ’s safety campaign

Wellington (19 October 2017): Yesterday, the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment released a NZIER report that discredits a WorkSafe NZ safety campaign that started in November 2011. In our report, A Matter of Balance: Regulating Safety, in July 2015, we criticised the government and officials for launching a costly campaign to reduce workplace falls from heights of less than three metres. Read more

Media release
19 October, 2017
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Improving safety on New Zealand's roads

Sam Warburton says authorities should have identified the rising trend in road deaths sooner and could have saved lives by acting faster to improve safety. Radio NZ interviews him about this subject. Read more

Radio NZ
16 October, 2017
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Is the road toll actually increasing?

The discussion about the road toll has risen in recent weeks. Larry Williams asks Sam Warburton whether the road toll is actually increasing when you also look at things like population growth and the numbers of cars on the road. Read more

Larry Williams Drive - Newstalk ZB
16 October, 2017
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A Nobel nudge

When mathematician Stanislaw Ulam challenged Paul Samuelson to point to anything in economics that was both universally true and non-obvious, Samuelson pointed to David Ricardo’s principle of comparative advantage: Even the least productive countries still benefit from trade. Richard Thaler’s Nobel Prize is richly deserved for several substantive contributions in behavioural economics. Read more

Dr Eric Crampton
The National Business Review
13 October, 2017
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Sam Warburton welcomes public debate over the road toll

Two weeks ago, and as part of an ongoing series about transport planning, investment and outcomes, I wrote about the road toll. In that period a further 15 car occupants have died, including four people north of Taupō this past Tuesday. Read more

Interest
13 October, 2017
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Time to reform the Reserve Bank?

In its 2017 Annual Report, the Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank refers to itself as “a unique governance body in the public sector”. But unique is not necessarily synonymous with good. Read more

Amy Thomasson
Insights Newsletter
13 October, 2017
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Unlearn this

Going to sleep at night, in bed with a hot water bottle and a teddy bear, it is comforting to know that somewhere some academic is toiling away, advancing the frontiers of knowledge. Associate Professor Ranjit Voola of the University of Sydney Business School has done this. Read more

Richard Baker
Insights Newsletter
13 October, 2017

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