The New Zealand Initiative

The global pandemic has led to a lot of political catchphrases, such as Green New Deal, and Build Back Better. Are these slogans of little substance, or will we soon see the state take a more assertiv...

25 Jun 202111min

The Initiative’s Steen Videbeck reflects on his career as an economist and a teacher – and he explains how he combines both perspectives in his new research project on literacy in New Zealand.

24 Jun 202115min

The practicalities of the Government’s new ‘feebate’ scheme are still unclear, as the Financial Services Federation’s Lyn McMorran explains in a conversation with Eric Crampton, Matt Burgess and Olive...

15 Jun 202120min

Chelsy Killick talks to Oliver Hartwich about his latest Newsroom column and asks why the next Euro crisis has just begun.

15 Jun 202111min

Matt Burgess, Eric Crampton, Oliver Hartwich and Bryce Wilkinson discuss the Government’s new feebate scheme. Will it help to cut emissions? Or is it just questionable middle-class welfare?

14 Jun 202122min

Joel Hernandez explains his three-year journey of crunching New Zealand’s education data.

10 Jun 202129min

Chelsy Killick talks to Oliver Hartwich about a strange scandal in German politics and why you should never lie in your CV.

10 Jun 202111min

Matt Burgess dissects the Climate Change Commission’s final recommendations.

9 Jun 202115min