2011-11-17 15:25:39 // Matt Nolan
// Idealog #36: workshop
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Making our system simpler is the only way to fix it. A flat tax is the best way forward.
2011-11-02 09:40:28 // Esther Goh
// The Idealog Blog
If you can get past the snore-inducing title, the Atlas of Economic Complexity is pretty awesome.
2011-11-01 14:17:37 // Anthony Byett
// Idealog #35: workshop
The Cup might be pulsating as a spectacle, but spending patterns remain indicative of tough times.
2011-09-14 14:33:50 // Matt Nolan
// Idealog #35: workshop
In a situation reminiscent of the 70s, the world economy has been battered by myriad oil price shocks in recent years. Can anything be done to make things better?
2011-03-10 13:54:21 // Vincent Heeringa
// Idealog #32: now
Rick Boven, executive director of the New Zealand Institute, took over from founding director David Skilling, who was not only very tall but had some large shoes to fill. So 18 months on, is Boven making his own mark? And what’s his big issue for 2011?
2010-11-30 10:38:21 // Simon Young
// Idealog #30: workshop
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For thousands of years living standards remained much the same, but in the early 1800s all that changed for Western nations. Why?
2010-06-23 13:43:55 // Deirdre Robert
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The University of Auckland’s School of Architecture and Planning is giving you a reprise from cold winter evenings by offering up 16 free toasty lectures from July to October.
2010-02-23 22:44:00 // Vincent Heeringa
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A new report by IBM and the Univerity of Auckland into the state of Kiwi innovation reveals two surprising facts, and one dismally old one
2009-12-17 10:52:00 // Stephen Jewell
// Idealog #25: now
Freakonomics was freaky, but Superfreakonomics pushes the envelope even further, analysing the price of prostitution, how terrorists can be tracked through their financial records and most controversially how technological advances could remedy global warming. Stephen J Dubner responds to its “angry” reaction
