Eric Crampton
Chief Economist at the NZ Initiative.
Adjunct Senior Fellow with the Department of Economics at @ucnz
Squatting here and at @EricCrampton@mastodon.social in case Twitter ever finally sinks.
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- It is pretty easy to find NZ academics with handles including "scholar-activist" - or equivalent. Can anyone point me to one that's from an NZ academic who's generally classical liberal, or market-friendly, or conservative? Does that exist in NZ academia, from the 'right'?
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- Last week's speech by the Prime Minister wasn't so much about policy (much of which was re-hash). It was really about the vibe. The vibe shift is laudable. But it'll take work to see it through. This week's column for the Stuff papers. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3605...
- I don't like trade wars and would not recommend any of this. But if it happened, bean prices in New Zealand could drop sharply.
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- Allow building up. Allow building out. Set both on user charging for infrastructure. Wars of up vs out means nobody builds anywhere. Stop policing others' lifestyle preferences. Just make sure that infrastructure charging doesn't have cross-subsidies.
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- Wonder whether it would be hard for the folks at ESR to add this to their current wastewater monitoring. esr-cri.shinyapps.io/wastewater/#...
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- In November, I'd had a column in the Post/Press about how Ch'íyáqtel First Nation in B.C. had gained and exercised rangatiratanga over their own lands. I wanted to learn more about it. So I had a chat with Chief Derek Epp. The podcast's here. m.soundcloud.com/user-4472923...
- My column in today's Post looks at the coming review of the Commerce Act. Unfortunately, the proposed review misses what I think are the biggest problems. www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3605...
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- Is there anywhere within walking distance of Lambton Quay that provides a burger that looks like this for takeaway? Ideally without the Oreos but I'm flexible on that. There used to be one on The Terrace near Woodward Street that came close, but that place closed ages ago.
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- In today's Post, @clrenney.bsky.social argues that "Instead of providing $216m in tax cuts for heated tobacco, we could use that money to boost the school meal budget." www.thepost.co.nz/business/360... It's worth looking at that number a bit more closely. It keeps being cited. But, well...
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- Latest from NZ Treasury. Income inequality is well down on 2008, across a variety of measures, both before and after housing costs. www.treasury.govt.nz/publications... File this one away for the next time you hear an assertion about 'rising' inequality.
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- I can imagine this being worthwhile if direct air capture gets cheap enough over the next 20 years. Not something I'd want to lock in today though.
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- Reposted by Eric Crampton"Kherson’s civilians have been, since midsummer, the target of an experiment without precedent in modern European warfare: a concerted Russian campaign to empty a city by stalking its residents with attack drones" www.ft.com/content/31b6...
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- Curst be the prohibitionists.
- Thread on merits of small lot sizes. Chart in the quoted post has median multiples. The median house in Houston runs a bit over 3x median household income. In Wellington and Christchurch, it's about 6.2x. In Auckland, it's about 8x. www.interest.co.nz/property/hou...
- I have huge difficulty seeing why resource-constrained councils should spend any time trying to re-invent Uber shared rides at substantial cost. Like, why?
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- Great recognition for Oliver Hartwich and the New Zealand Initiative at last night's Deloitte Top 200 awards. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/com...
