They did not at first. Classical economics thought that the price of something reflected the objective cost of producing it – ...

By international standards the New Zealand healthcare system appears satisfactory – certainly no worse generally than average ...

Peter Frankopan’s The Earth Transformed: An Untold History is a compelling account of the interaction between humans and the environment. . The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Oxford ...

As Lady Bracknell almost said, ‘to lose one may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness.’ And so a second Government Statistician has made a hasty exit, The official reason in ...

A Bully in a China Shop? It is a mystery what Donald Trump learned when he did his BA in economics at the University of Pennsylvania in the mid-1960s. The Ivy League college has a good economics ...

Of all the headline-making, world-reshaping actions of the second Trump administration thus far, perhaps the most defining is the United States’ vote against the resolution condemning Moscow’s ...

Ganesh Nana is Chief Economist and Executive Director at Business and Economic Research Limited (BERL), which remains a privately-owned New Zealand research company (established in 1957). Ganesh ...

Phil Vine has been a print, radio and television journalist for 30 years cycling between most of the current affairs shows in New Zealand, Sunday, Sixty Minutes, Fair Go and 3D investigates, winning a ...

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