This seemed like a worthwhile way to spend an hour or so. Will the NZ Herald be willing to correct a completely inaccurate article? ( Not that this kind of response wouldn’t be legitimate on any day of the week for a dozen or more articles with similarly careless and inaccurate reporting – but this […]

On 12 December 2017, Rethinking Economics and the New Weather Institute published ’33 Theses for an Economics Reformation’ to mark 500 years since the Catholic Reformation. The Theses, which were endorsed by students and economists and fixed with blutack 🙂 to the doors of the London School of Economics, are reproduced below. The action was taken as the […]

Trade Minister David Parker has taken up the opportunity to do what the Trade Ministers of TPPA countries agreed to at the APEC conference and offered New Zealanders the opportunity for a consultation and better understanding on the TPPA prior to it being signed.  He has said it is unlikely this will affect the outcome […]

Kia ora David, Congratulations on your new Ministerial roles and for taking a decisive approach to protecting housing from overseas speculators in case the TPPA-11 comes into effect. I would like to raise with you some of my concerns that the current approach to the TPPA does not adequately reflect the direction outlined in Labour’s […]