NZ's Future: Clean, Green, Safe…and Expensive!

NZ's Future: Clean, Green, Safe…and Expensive!
Tim Hazledine
Right now, our focus must be on the big macroeconomic numbers of the post-covid recovery: in particular the unemployment rate and the Budget deficit. But we should not neglect the microeconomics of the situation. It’s not just how much we do in aggregate, but also the quality of what we do, that will contribute to our well-being in the next years. And, indeed, the force majeure of the lock-down brings opportunities as well as problems.A great experimentMany of us have just participated in a great experiment exploring the possibilitie...

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