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SAVE AND WIN

Subsidies could help us save more – and boost economic growth. 
Listener: 19 May, 2007. 
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; 
New Zealanders are not saving enough. The consequence is that a high proportion of our most productive capital is becoming overseas-owned, as we use foreign savings to finance our new investment and sell existing assets to cover the national [...]

19th May 2007 | Comments Closed

DECOMMERCIALISING ADVANCED STUDIES

Keywords:  Education;  Governance; Growth & Innovation;
 
The judges of a singing contest, dissatisfied with the first diva, awarded the prize to the second without having heard her. The favouring of commercialisation in the late 1980s and early 1990s had a similar empirical base. We have now heard the second diva, and while she has some strengths, [...]

7th May 2007 | Comments Closed

LOOK BACK IN REGRET

How our fondness for instant gratification challenges conventional economic thinking.
 
Listener: 5 May, 2007.
 
Keywords: Health; Social Policy;
 
You go into the bar for a couple of drinks. The following morning you can’t remember how many you had, but your head and throat wish you had not.
 
What intrigues an economist is that while with hindsight you regret the [...]

5th May 2007 | Comments Closed