Sawtooth Economics

People are choosing to move to warmer places🍋

In seeming contradiction to rising global temperatures

Published on Asymmetric Information • Aug 25

Paying peanuts for passion🍋

Underinvesting in the Social Investment Board

Published on Asymmetric Information • Aug 8

July 2024

The CloudStrike outage: a tale of trust & tradeoffs🍋

The internet is surprising: fragile yet hard to fix

Published on Asymmetric Information • Jul 21

May 2024

We expect too much from universities🍋

And are they at risk of technological disruption?

Published on Asymmetric Information • May 28

Thinking slowly about Daniel Kahneman🍋

My thoughts on his legacy

Published on Asymmetric Information • May 12

April 2024

Pricing and fairness on the Milford Track🍋

$92 per night for a hut is too expensive and unfair, says the NZ Herald. But is a lower price any fairer?

Published on Asymmetric Information • Apr 14

Whatever happened to Peak Oil?🍋

A grand idea, fuelled by a misunderstanding of supply and demand...

Published on Asymmetric Information • Apr 2

February 2024

Ha‑Joon Chang's "five things they don’t tell you about economics"🍋

95% of economics may be common sense, but the other 5% is not. That 5% matters

Published on Asymmetric Information • Feb 17

Eat the rich! Sustainably, of course … 🍋

Some thoughts on taxing the wealthy

Published on Asymmetric Information • Feb 17

January 2024

Wither rail freight in NZ?🍋

A friendly debate between Bryan Crump & Dave Heatley

Published on Asymmetric Information • Jan 23

The many prices of carbon🍋

Have we failed to properly value emissions? Are subsidies justified?

Published on Asymmetric Information • Jan 4

December 2023

Is a rail link between North & South Islands really "essential"?🍋

And what game has KiwiRail been playing with government finances?

Published on Asymmetric Information • Dec 26, 2023