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Hello all. Here are some links I’d like to do posts on, but don’t have the time. As a result, I suggest enjoying them for yourself! VoxEU discusses banks being “too large” (to big to fail subsides). VoxEU again, on Piketty’s second fundamental law. Noah Smith with further comments on undergrad economics. Eric Crampton on […]
There has been a bit of discussion about Countdown hurting wholesalers to get prices down, flexing their muscle shall we say (here and here). The Commerce Commission is concerned about this and is investigating. Via Twitter I noticed that the concerns about supermarkets being bullies has led to an increasing desire to do something about […]
There has been a series of posts by people discussing a new book, “Big Ideas in Macroeconomics“. Ryan Decker points out a good post by Steven Williamson that has links to other posts. I haven’t read the book, in fact I haven’t ordered it yet (but intend to) – but I don’t really intend to […]
The authors of the Spirit Level have done a piece on the relationship between inequality and negative outcomes here. Now I’ve previously strongly disagreed with the Spirit Level here. However, I feel that I can discuss this specific post separately – I feel that it is clear and more focused than the book. I am […]
Over at Polity Rob Salmond has promised us the truth about the gap between NZ’s rich and the rest (via Toby Manhire)! This would be encouraging, given the complexity of the data. I just want to say at the start I have full respect for people who want to discuss these important issues, including the […]
Donal over at Economics New Zealand posted up some OECD figures that indicate that the Gini coefficient over the OECD was the same in 2010 as it was in the mid-1990s, and that it is actually lower in New Zealand. As I have noted earlier, I am going to start writing about inequality on the blog. […]