Eric Crampton

Dr. Eric Crampton is chief economist at the New Zealand Initiative in Wellington. From 2003 through 2014, he served as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer with the Department of Economics at the University of Canterbury. He blogs at Offsetting Behaviour.

How an OIA laid bare the pork barrel shambles that is Shane Jones’ provincial growth fund

Eric Crampton

18 Apr 2019

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How to solve housing affordability in New Zealand? Look to the United States

Why the ban on foreign homebuyers is so very dumb

The foreign buyer ban is an abomination. Bad in principle, worse in practice

Give us our red socks, and $212m public money, for the 2021 Economist’s Cup

Why throwing another pile of $$$$ at old people is sheer idiocy

Eric Crampton

15 Dec 2017

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Eric Crampton

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