Posts by Stephen Judd
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Chris Keall's NBR story alludes to Oliver Hazard Perry as the originator of the "we have met the enemy and he is X" trope.
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Hard News: OGB Update, in reply to Emma Hart,
This keen person is letting you know.
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I’m interested in knowing what latitude public servants who want their target bonus will have. The government is supposed to set policy, not public servants. I can’t say I’d be very motivated by a challenging target if I couldn’t have my way in how to achieve it.
Which also leads me to see this as a sort of blame-avoidance rhetorical manouevre. There is an underlying assumption that the state of affairs is the result of the level of effort of the public service, not of the policies they execute. Bah. Let’s see cabinet ministers have targets set with penalties for failure, as soon as they get their warrants…
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Bloody good news. Well done, well deserved.
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Speaker: The Voyage: On Interpreting and…, in reply to Eric Crampton,
Thanks for clearing that up. My memory of the exchange is pretty dim.
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Speaker: The Voyage: Dutch Disease –…, in reply to Rob Stowell,
I don’t believe forcing anyone who is not wealthy off land they cannot crowbar into constant dollar-making would be the way to change this :)
LIKE
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Yes, it would be a stronger article if he resisted the temptation to riff on the "dude, where's my flying car" meme and stuck to the discussion about declining rates of profit, the neolib project, bureaucracy and control.
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A while ago I raised the point of profits going overseas and Eric Crampton responded that the profits are denominated in NZ dollars, and therefore must be spent here, and are in no way lost to the NZ economy. I feel that who controls the spending is still important, but nonetheless it's an interesting counter which I hope Rod will address.
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The world’s ability to invent and develop new tools and techniques to increase productivity has atrophied over the last 30 years.
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Up Front: Sex with Parrots, in reply to Tom Beard,
we have some top people working on solutions
In the interests of balance, shouldn't you have some bottom people too?