Postscript on ‘The New Politics’
One must of course be careful about reading too much into titles and labels. I shared an advance copy of yesterday’s post with Peter Harris and Chris Eichbaum and they advised me that the ‘Third Way’...
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The Spirit Level versus the ‘investment state’
Written by two epidemiology researchers, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, The Spirit Level has become the progressive publishing sensation of the last couple of years. Based on a broad range of...
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Macroeconomics without growth
This post follows from last week’s, which discussed how Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett’s The Spirit Level argued against the continued value of further economic growth. This week’s post looks at...
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Why taking GST off fresh food won’t help the poor, improve their health, or...
There has been quite a bit of fuss of late about GST on fresh fruit and vegetables. The Maori Party’s Rahui Katene put forward a private members bill that would have exempted healthy food from GST,...
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We value what we measure
This is the third and final part of a series of posts about contemporary progressive thinkers who challenge the ‘conventional wisdom’ about economic growth. Part one looked at Richard Wilkinson and...
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Our first publication – collecting Peter Harris on superannuation
I’m very pleased to announce our first online publication: a collection of the three guest-posts that Peter Harris wrote on superannuation and retirement savings issues back in May, June and August....
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New publication: let’s look at the workplace
I’m pleased to announce another online publication from Policy Progress. This one is written by Owen Harvey and it’s all original material, looking at the issue of workplace productivity, why it’s...
View ArticleReflections on Policy Progress 2010
This will be the last ‘proper’ post for 2010, although I intend over the next day or so to do two more posts ‘announcing’ further online publications. It also comes with me having finished (last week)...
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New publication: ‘Reconceiving the Welfare State’
David Craig’s three-part guest-post series looking at the prospects for the welfare state was one of the most-viewed and best-regarded pieces that we published this year. Now, as promised, it’s been...
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New publication: ‘The Power of Ideas’ collects ‘theoretical foundations’ posts
It’s finally arrived! The most anticipated (by me at least) Policy Progress publication of 2010, The Power of Ideas: Decline and renewal in the theoretical foundations of progressive thinking, is now...
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