Charting a course

27 Oct 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in politics - New Zealand, urban economics

My column in Newsroom this week makes a few guesses about where NZ local water policy may be headed. Labour forced the amalgamation of water services into new entities that National promised to throttle before they can get going. What happens next?No election platform survives contact with post-election coalition negotiations.But one outcome seems rather obvious –…

Charting a course

What should be done about the Reserve Bank?

19 Oct 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in business cycles, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, inflation targeting, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags:

Monday’s post was on the important place effective accountability must have when government agencies are given great discretionary power which – as is in the nature of any human institutions – they will at times exercise poorly. My particular focus is on the Reserve Bank, both because it is what I know best, because it […]

What should be done about the Reserve Bank?

BARRIE SAUNDERS: Labour one of two election losers

16 Oct 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in politics - New Zealand

Labour is a big time election loser, but is not the only one. Labour will now have to re-build, while it has two strong competitors on its left – The Greens and The Maori Party. Given Labour’s natural position as a major party, this is much more difficult than it is for the niche parties.…

BARRIE SAUNDERS: Labour one of two election losers

The case for bringing Winston into a coalition agreement

15 Oct 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in politics - New Zealand

There’s much to digest, the day after the counting of votes and  an outcome which is subject to special votes being brought into account. For now, it is tempting to agree with David Farrar (who confesses it is unlike him to write an article which can be summed up in the headline Why National should do […]

The case for bringing Winston into a coalition agreement

Labour one of two election losers

15 Oct 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in politics - New Zealand

Labour is a big time election loser, but is not the only one. Labour will now have to re-build, while it has two strong competitors on its left – The Greens and The Maori Party. Given Labour’s natural position as a major party, this is much more difficult than it is for the niche parties. […]

Labour one of two election losers

The problems of a tax-free threshold

05 Oct 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in politics - New Zealand, public economics

Jim Rose details the problems with a tax-free threshold for the NZ Taxpayers Union. Running one that’s revenue-neutral means you have to increase marginal rates further up. Increasing marginal rates to fund inframarginal transfers mightn’t make the most sense. And there are better ways of targeting support, if that’s what you want to do. He writes:The introduction…

The problems of a tax-free threshold

They keep dropping the ball

20 Sep 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in politics - New Zealand

The risk the Greens’ wealth tax poses to our economy

21 Jul 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, financial economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, public economics Tags: ,

https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/300932454/the-risk-the-greens-wealth-tax-poses-to-our-economy

Brooke van Velden for Tamaki

29 Apr 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in politics - New Zealand Tags:

Nadine Strossen: How New Zealand should change hate speech laws | Q+A 2023

20 Apr 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in law and economics, liberalism, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: , ,

Free speech expert tells Sean the tide may be turning

19 Apr 2023 Leave a comment

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How Bill Maher defines ‘woke’

07 Apr 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in liberalism, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: , ,

Eat Meat From Animals That Deserved to Die | We The Internet TV

26 Mar 2023 Leave a comment

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Progressive against free speech

21 Mar 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in liberalism, politics - New Zealand Tags: ,

5 Reasons Why We Need Hate Speech | We The Internet TV

11 Mar 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: , ,

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