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I will teach my pupils to make me rich

A key rule of economics is that incentives shape human behaviour for better or worse.

Quality of life's journey depends on happenstance

Peter Lyons reflects on lessons on life learned from his father.

Solicitous investing will help close rich/poor gap

Peter Lyons asks if income inequality is actually an economic problem.

Economic hard cheese as the rest rise and the West wanes

Appalled at the continuing rise in the price of milk, butter and cheese? Get used to it, says Peter Lyons. It is the price we must pay for years of debt-fuelled consumption.

Privatisation driven by ideology

Peter Lyons looks at the rationale behind the Government's recent proposed partial privatisation of state assets and gauges whether they stack up.

Prosperity not study's corollary

Prosperity not study's corollary Peter Lyons questions the widespread belief that education is the key to prosperity in the age of techology-based economies.

A chip in the casino of international finance

A chip in the casino of international finance Peter Lyons believes the rigid approach to controlling inflation in this country is "obsessive" and distortional to the economy. He writes an open letter to Allan Bollard, governor of the Reserve Bank.

View from ledge on the precipice

Peter Lyons warns of the treacherous shoals of the global economy and believes New Zealand and the world is in for a long period of financial and economic volatility.

In 2007-08, the global economy fell off a cliff. It is currently perched on a ledge partway down the precipice. Unfortunately, the ledge appears to be crumbling.

Tougher entry to universities opens ranking can of worms

The change to a model of quality rather than quantity in admissions will pose problems for universities, whose entrants they must select from within the NCEA secondary system, says Peter Lyons.

Timely rental tax change may help not harm

Will rents go up if the Government moves against property investors? Unlikely, suggests Peter Lyons, who nonetheless counsels against sudden or radical change.

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