A bit late, but this case study is too good to pass up! The local Wellington newspaper reported that: Wellington City Council’s strategy and policy committee this morning agreed to a joint plan by Positively Wellington Tourism, Grow Wellington and the council to implement the council’s new ”Destination Wellington” programme. … The proposal agreed to […]
After appallingly poor turnouts in recent local elections in the UK The Guardian has a post implying that election turnouts have been falling over time. The key figure is this: They also have a chart showing that smaller, less nationally important elections get a far lower turnout. Given that their time series data combines all […]
After reading this quote from Darwin, Matt asks whether there are too few lumpers in economics: “It is good,” opined Charles Darwin in an 1857 letter to the botanist J. D. Hooker, “to have hair-splitters and lumpers.” He was talking about how best to classify varieties of flora; being Darwin, he managed to establish an enduring […]
Stuff has the data: Figures from the State Services Commission show government employees took an average of 7.6 sick days in 2012. No official figures are kept for private sector sick leave, but an Employers and Manufacturers Association survey suggests the average could be as low as 3.7 days a year. … The discrepancy of […]
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and […]
While Matt was busy lounging around in Colombia I packed my bags and moved to London. With agnitio in Auckland, that leaves Matt as the only remaining Wellington resident still blogging, although he makes up for that by writing 80% of the posts! To celebrate my move to the UK it seems appropriate to reference […]