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The tragedy of NZs ‘conventional wisdom’ (opens the original)
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Our Badly Administered Economy (opens the original)
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Somewhere in Auckland a nurse gets up before dawn and drives to a hospital she cannot afford to live near. Before she begins work her wage has already been divided among the mortgage or landlord, the power company, the insurer, the petrol station and the supermarket. The hospital inhabits the same expensive country. It must pay enough to keep nurses in Auckland, while its builders, cleaners, caterers and suppliers carry the same costs of land, energy, transport and finance. The government taxes
Nz, mugged by invisible hands 1984-2026 (opens the original)
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The ‘conventional wisdom’ refers to something that is commonly accepted, yet wrong. On that subject, there is a comforting story New Zealand tells itself about the last forty years.“By 1984 the country was broke. Decades of government meddling had produced inflation, debt and stagnation. Courageous politicians, guided by expert officials, opened the economy, disciplined government, sold inefficient state businesses and allowed markets to allocate resources properly.”There are some truths inside
WHAT ARE WE RESPONSIBLE FOR? ‘Made in New Zealand’ and the next economic reform (opens the original)
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Tomorrow I am going to a discussion about whether New Zealand needs a “Made in NZ” policy. My first answer is no. Being made here does not make something good or worth its price. A New Zealand factory can waste resources. A foreign factory can make the same thing better for less. Trade lets us use other people’s skills, machines and resources. Growing bananas in Invercargill would increase domestic production. That does not make it wise.Suppose a government agency needs a thousand pieces of equi
Pt 2. Of ‘The reality is…’ Ruthenasias Boeing economics. (opens the original)
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Nzs political ‘weak tea’, our economic diabetes, and the forty year economic experiment that retarded our country.Since the 1990s successive NZ govts have miraculously produced more tea without adding enough to the pot, or planting enough for future generations. All thanks to the reforms of the 1990s known as ‘ruthenasia’.It boils down to this. Just add water. ‘The market’ does the rest.Eg. Take a pot of tea - New Zealand - and add another million people. Then another. If housing, infrastructure
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