Outside the Asylum: the final installment of an epic essay in praise of New Zealand
We conclude an epic essay from the New Zealand Initiative’s Eric Crampton, exploring what life is like in and out of New Zealand.
Eric Crampton
Dr. Eric Crampton is Head of Research with the New Zealand Initiative in Wellington. From 2003 through 2014, he served as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer with the Department of Economics at the University of Canterbury. He blogs at Offsetting Behaviour.
Outside the Asylum: chapter six of an epic essay in praise of New Zealand
We continue serialising an epic essay from the New Zealand Initiative’s Eric Crampton, exploring what life is like in and out of New Zealand. Today: chapter five, on drinking.
Outside the Asylum: chapter five of an epic essay in praise of New Zealand
We continue serialising an epic essay from the New Zealand Initiative’s Eric Crampton, exploring what life is like in and out of New Zealand. Today: chapter five, on policing.
Outside the Asylum: chapters three and four of an epic essay in praise of New Zealand
We continue serialising an epic essay from the New Zealand Initiative’s Eric Crampton, exploring what life is like in and out of New Zealand. Today: chapters three and four, covering tax and airport security.
Outside the Asylum: chapters one and two of Eric Crampton’s epic essay situating New Zealand as an oasis in a weird world
Living in New Zealand and focusing on our very real social issues, it's easy to forget that there are many things we do quite well. Over the next couple of weeks we serialise an epic essay from the New Zealand Initiative's Eric Crampton, exploring what life is like in and out of New Zealand.
Why the budget must include a tax cut – and fiscal discipline to go with it
Budget 2017: We invited Eric Crampton to make the argument for a tax cut. Here he offers the case for a modest cut to reflect inflation, the case for a more substantial cut, and, for good measure, a dumb case
Peter Thiel is a world-leading tech investor and a fascinating thinker. Of course NZ was right to make him a citizen
Some say the American billionaire isn’t welcome because of his backing for Trump – but that happened four years after he was granted citizenship. And should political support really be a litmus? Eric Crampton writes in defence of Citizen Thiel.
Buckle up for President Trump. It only gets crazier from here
Earlier this year I wrote that a Donald Trump presidency wouldn't be that bad. Today I'm a whole lot less cheerful, writes Eric Crampton.
Vancouver’s foreign-buyer tax: the solution for an overheated Auckland market?
Did the Canadian experiment work? It is far too early to tell, and anybody claiming otherwise may be trying to sell you something, writes Eric Crampton
Labour’s loan write-off: a solution in search of a problem
There is good reason for reforming the student loan system, but the proposal to wipe debt for those who work in the regions doesn't hold water, argues Eric Crampton.
