Watching the watchers
Via Eric Crampton, of all people (his “interesting” sidebar is, well, interesting, and incidentally his co-fisk of the BERL booze report is brutal), the news that (in US prisons, at least) guards...
View ArticleDuelling imperatives
So, the National Business Review has decided to (partially) monetise its interweb presence. In a rather petulant letter, publisher Barry Colman takes aim at the enemies of journalism and backs his team...
View ArticleOn media bias and distortion
BK Drinkwater has posted a good response to some of the comments on Bryce Edwards’ synopses of chapters from the book Informing Voters? Politics, Media and the New Zealand Election 2008 (edited by...
View ArticleLocal Government Elections 2010
Just bullet points from me: Len Brown by 60,000 votes over John Banks for Supercity Mayor. How about all those people who said his so-called outburst would be the death of him? Len Brown knows who his...
View Article‘Efficient’ pricing and social cohesion in disaster recovery
In my view, one of the more shameful episodes in the Canterbury earthquake was the call by some for retailers to implement so-called ‘efficient’ pricing of crucial goods such as water. Among these was...
View ArticleRevealed preference
Former National leader Don Brash addressed the ACT party conference at the weekend, which was half “catching Australia” boilerplate and half a warming-over of the infamous “nationhood” speech given at...
View ArticleThe housing problem isn’t a housing problem; it’s a regional development problem
I have noted with growing despair the xenophobia which is becoming a political commonplace this election cycle. On the left it’s about house prices.* But this post is not about racism; it’s about...
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