Last week The New Zealand Initiative released The Health of the State, our report on public health and lifestyle regulations. You may have caught some of the media coverage on it.
While the report has a bunch of key messages that I think are important, here’s the one I found most valuable during the course of this research: don’t rely on media coverage or press releases alone. Read the report. And even then, read the whole report, not just the abstract and conclusion. It’s amazing, and incredibly rewarding, discovering studies – evenly highly regarded studies – aren’t all that they seem.
Outcomes from the panel discussion
To launch the report, we held a panel discussion where I spoke alongside The Treasury’s Chief Economist and Deputy Secretary Dr Girol Karacaoglu, Maori Party co-leader Marama Fox, and Institute for Economic Affairs Fellow Jamie Whyte. You can watch the full panel discussion here
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