Entries by Matt Nolan

An economist licence

We licence other service professions, why not applied economists? What I’m thinking is that economists could get a licence through a university where they have to sit an exam on certain, essential, points of economics. They would have to resit it every 5 years. Don’t make the licence compulsory persee, just make it something that […]

Big ups to the NZ econblogsphere

Kiwiblog’s link to a new economics blog called Progressive Turmoil got me thinking. I now count 12 14 economics blogs in New Zealand that are still going (list at bottom – note all the blogs I have linked to have a lot of economics opinions in them, even if this isn’t their primary description. To […]