Shorts: short pieces that may be of interest
(Asymmetric Information is the newsletter of the New Zealand Association of Economists)
What would you choose? (Asymmetric Information No.26, July 2006)
NZAE Conference 2006 (Asymmetric Information No.26, July 2006)
The rise of fake news (Asymmetric Information No.26, July 2006)
The Politics of Prevarication (Asymmetric Information No.26, July 2006)
Let’s get scientific (Asymmetric Information No.26, July 2006)
Need a variable, just construct an index (Asymmetric Information No.26, July 2006)
Shopping as unpaid work? (Asymmetric Information No.26, July 2006)
Universal Suffrage (Asymmetric Information No.26, July 2006)
One for some analysis? (Asymmetric Information No.26, July 2006)
What is aid for – economic development or social engineering? (Asymmetric Information No.26, July 2006)
CPI up 1.5% in the June quarter 2006! (Asymmetric Information No.26, July 2006)
David Hume, Impressions and Ideas (Asymmetric Information No.25, March 2006)
Economics as a discipline? (Asymmetric Information No.25, March 2006)
A thought about our assumptions – is there a paradox? (Asymmetric Information No.25, March 2006)
Charity, Tax and Contributing to the Public Good (Asymmetric Information No.25, March 2006)
Accuracy of valuations (Asymmetric Information No.25, March 2006)
Utility – a narrow concept? (Asymmetric Information No.25, March 2006)
Whose preferences? (Asymmetric Information No.25, March 2006)
Would textbook economics suggest raising taxes? (Asymmetric Information No.24, November 2005)
Economics and the Housing Bubble (Asymmetric Information No.24, November 2005)
Structural Stability and Consistent Data Series (Asymmetric Information No.24, November 2005)
Lessons from
Bureaucrats and Incentives (Asymmetric Information No.23, July 2005)
Paradigm-based Reasoning (Asymmetric Information No.23, July 2005)
Government – MPs (Asymmetric Information No.23, July 2005)
Government – public servants (Asymmetric Information No.23, July 2005)
Generations and Perspectives (Asymmetric Information No.23, July 2005)
Interesting Statistic no.3288 (Asymmetric Information No.23, July 2005)
The 2005 Conference (Asymmetric Information No.23, July 2005)
Social Capital a Misnomer? (Asymmetric Information No.23, July 2005)
More Comments on the NCEA Economics Paper 90631 (Asymmetric Information No.22, March 2005)
The Becker-Posner Blog on Immigration (Asymmetric Information No.22, March 2005)
The Games Politicians Play (Asymmetric Information No.22, March 2005)
Duelling Press Releases (Asymmetric Information No.22, March 2005)
Interesting Statistic No.3287 (Asymmetric Information No.22, March 2005)
Smoking, Food and Value Added (Asymmetric Information No.22, March 2005)
SPREC 2004 - A Conspiracy Theory Perspective (Asymmetric Information No.22, March 2005)
Helen Clark's Use of Treasury Advice (Asymmetric Information No.22, March 2005)
National Women's Convention 3-6 June 2005 (Asymmetric Information No.22, March 2005)
Whose voices, whose worlds? (Asymmetric Information No.22, March 2005)
Layard on happiness (Asymmetric Information No.22, March 2005)
Historical Institutionalism - a New Zealand example (Asymmetric Information No.22, March 2005)
Paying for Training (Asymmetric Information No.22, March 2005)
Economists Falsifying Their Preferences – Surely Not! (Asymmetric Information No.21, November 2004)
Yet More Double Standards (Asymmetric Information No.21, November 2004)
Teaching about democracy (Asymmetric Information No.21, November 2004)
A sensible approach to inflation (Asymmetric Information No.21, November 2004)
Pay Equity and Equal Employment Opportunities (Asymmetric Information No.21, November 2004)
Labour’s Boys’ Club (Asymmetric Information No.21, November 2004)
Not only judicial activism, but also delegated lawmaking… (Asymmetric Information No.21, November 2004)
“Matters of principle and policy” (Asymmetric Information No.21, November 2004)
Procedural Justice (Asymmetric Information No.21, November 2004)
“Liberal Groupthink” (Asymmetric Information No.21, November 2004)
Law and Order (Asymmetric Information No.20, July 2004)
Elections and Political Correctness (Asymmetric Information No.20, July 2004)
PBRF stumps top economists (Asymmetric Information No.20, July 2004)
A Psychologist's Take on Utility (Asymmetric Information No.20, July 2004)
IRD on the ball (Asymmetric Information No.20, July 2004)
The Social State of the Nation (Asymmetric Information No.20, July 2004)
Amartya Sen on Democracy (Asymmetric Information No.20, July 2004)
Waitangi and History - Bill Oliver's View (Asymmetric Information No.19, March 2004)
Rational thinking (Asymmetric Information No.19, March 2004)
Yes Prime Minister (Asymmetric Information No.19, March 2004)
A UNESCO Report (Asymmetric Information No.19, March 2004)
Human Rights (Asymmetric Information No.19, March 2004)
Helen Clark and Judicial Activism (Asymmetric Information No.19, March 2004) [Law and Economics column]
Social Engineering and Equality of Outcomes (Asymmetric Information No.19, March 2004)
It depends on how you look at it... (Asymmetric Information No.19, March 2004)
What's All the Fuss About? (Asymmetric Information No.19, March 2004)
Time to rewrite the textbooks? (Asymmetric Information No.18, November 2003)
Understanding the Issues (Asymmetric Information No.18, November 2003) [Law and Economics column]
Alternative Visions of "Family" (Asymmetric Information No.18, November 2003)
Changing perceptions (Asymmetric Information No.18, November 2003)
Politics and the making of policy: an example (Asymmetric Information No.17, July 2003)
Law and Economics (Asymmetric Information No.17, July 2003) [Law and Economics column]
GDP revisited (Asymmetric Information No.17, July 2003)
Pathfinder!!! (Asymmetric Information No.16, March 2003)
Maori not a burden (Asymmetric Information No.16, March 2003)
John Tamihere’s speech (Asymmetric Information No.16, March 2003)
Is economics redundant? (Asymmetric Information No.16, March 2003)
On Technicalities (Asymmetric Information No.15, November 2002) [Law and Economics column]
Did you fill in your census papers? (Asymmetric Information No.15, November 2002)
A Web Page for Economists (and Others) (Asymmetric Information No.14, July 2002)
The Economist as Expert Witness (Asymmetric Information No.13, March 2002) [Law and Economics column]
Carrots and sticks (Asymmetric Information No.13, March 2002)
Child Support - the Durie Formula (Asymmetric Information No.12, November 2001) [Law and Economics column]
Preferences and policy, signals and consistency (Asymmetric Information No.12, November 2001)
The Cost-Benefit Study Proves That... (Asymmetric Information No.11, July 2001)
Census schmensus (Asymmetric Information No.10, March 2001)
Structures, context and all that... (Asymmetric Information No.9, November 2000)
Econometrics, causality and all that... (Asymmetric Information No.8, July 2000)
Output, well-being and all that…. (Asymmetric Information No.7, March 2000)
Utility and all that… (Asymmetric Information No.6, November 1999)
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