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Personal Income Tax Reform in New Zealand 5 Feb 2010
Tax Reform in 2010 20 Jan 2010 (NZ Herald version 22 Jan 2010
Use It or Lose It: Understanding the Global Financial Crisis 18 Sep 2009
Submission on Review of 2003 Holidays Act 21 Aug 2009
Changing the Dole versus Changing the Tax System 1 Jul 2009
(written for Herald in response to this news story and this editorial, but not published)
Pension Age and Life Expectancy 5 Jun 2009
National's New Tax Rates 12 Dec 2008
Replacing the Binge and Bubble Economy 26 Nov 2008 (IFR version 11 Dec 2008)
Helping the Newly Unemployed in the Recession 2 Nov 2008
Wall St trembles but it's not the Big One Independent Financial Review, 25 Sep 2008
Monitoring and Facilitating Sustainable Development 28 Aug 2008
A time to borrow, a time to spend NZ Herald, 7 Aug 2008
Kiwi Saver: is it good public policy? 16 Apr 2008
What do we mean by "Good for the Economy"? 31 Mar 2008
An imminent recession? Be prepared. 26 Mar 2008
Understanding the New Zealand Housing Market 18 Feb 2008 (Herald version written earlier)
Balance of Payments. What's really wrong? 19 Oct 2007 (IFR version 31 Oct 2007)
Climate Change 13 May 2007
Let there be morning light NZ Herald 2 May 2007
Fixing the mess 1 May 2007
Forget the boom and get ready for some gloom 20 Apr 2007
The current state of the New Zealand economy 13 Apr 2007
Welfare support of children 15 Mar 2007
Monetary policy in New Zealand 22 Feb 2007
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on www.scoop.co.nz
2025 and All That: the 2009 Brash Report 1 Dec 2009
Tax Reform - What Not To Do 27 Nov 2009
Synopsis of Argument presented in Use It or Lose It 23 Sep 2009
Revising our Statutory Public Holidays 2 Jul 2009
Tax Cuts 2009-2011 1 Apr 2009
Controversy over National's Tax Cuts: a clarification 12 Dec 2008
Controversy over National's Tax Cuts 11 Dec 2008 (larger version of Table 1)
MMP - The Electorate MP Rule 11 Nov 2008
Helping the Newly Unemployed in the Recession 7 Nov 2008
Reasons to vote Green 20 Oct 2008
National's 2008 Tax Reform 30 May 2008
Kiwi Saver: is it good public policy? 16 April 2008
PC 11 April 2008
The Free-Trade Agreement and the Economic Good 7 April 2008
An imminent recession? Be prepared. 20 March 2008
Understanding the Housing Market 19 February 2008
The Reserve Bank's Unfortunate Experiment 22 June 2007
New Zealand's Economic Pressure Cooker 11 June 2007
Dominion Day centenary, 26 September 2007 5 June 2007
New Zealand's 2007 Budget and the Overvalued Dollar 18 May 2007
Fixing the Mess 1 May 2007
Forget The Boom And Get Ready For Some Gloom 30 Apr 2007
Gallipoli; More Than a World War 1 Side-Show 25 Apr 2007
High Interest Rates Encourage Speculative Investment in Housing 24 Apr 2007
The Current State of the New Zealand Economy 23 Apr 2007
Motorway Follies 17 Mar 2006
Academic Page updated 22 Apr 2009
Media Page updated 4 Jun 2009
Statistical Charts updated 27 Feb 2008
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