Pandemic-economics blog

Is the Covid pandemic and our collective responses to it best framed as health vs.

What is bad luck? Bad luck is spilling spaghetti sauce down your shirt right before an important mee…

I’m OK with wearing a CovidCard. But are you? There’s no point me doing it alone.

New Zealand’s COVID Tracer app is “on track to achieve nothing”, according to Sam Morgan.

New COVID-19 cases are soaring in the US. I would naturally expect the number of deaths to be soarin…

Much of the public debate about the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has focused on the extent to w…

Zero community transmission. Just a handful of active cases, all in quarantine. New Zealand is in an…

Elimination. Border incursions. An outbreak. A lockdown, which takes us back to elimination.

Alert level 1! Like you no doubt, I am breathing a sigh of relief. But no one can guarantee that New…

As the metaphorical ink was drying on the Commission’s technological change and the future of work f…

One of the key findings from the Commission’s recent Technological change and the future of work inq…

In normal times, New Zealand’s labour market works well. Compared to many other countries, unemploym…

It is said that ‘good things happen to those who hustle’.

One of the big goals of some urban policymakers in recent years has been achieving greater populatio…

Last October, New Zealand communities elected their local government councillors and mayors.

Eighty-four percent of New Zealanders were concerned about the chances that they or someone close to…

Are humans destined to be over-prepared for yesterday’s existential threat, and under-prepared for t…

Governments around the world have restricted the activities of their citizens in the fight against C…

Lockdown hasn’t seemed too bad.

The die is cast.