markets / regulation

Creativity and The Organisation
The Trade Me deal tells us a lot about entrepreneurship, individuals' identity and the Corporate State....
9 March 2006 - Gareth Morgan

In for a Penny, In for A Pound
Come on front up, time to throw good money after bad - your airline awaits you....
14 February 2006 - Gareth Morgan

Corporate “Power” of the Year
If the NZ economy is to get the requisite efficiency to lift living standards above the OECD average it cannot afford to tolerate monopolies in infrastructure behaving counter-productively....
15 December 2005 - Gareth Morgan

The Pot calls the Kettle (All) Black
Mirror, mirror on the wall who's the biggest scalper of all? ...
3 March 2005 - Gareth Morgan

Who’s Scalping Who?
The NZRFU thinks it can prohibit rugby fans selling their test tickets. It can't and it isn't....
23 February 2005 - Gareth Morgan

One Phoney Regulation Spawns a Heap
Advocating price controls for cellphone calls suggests the Commerce Commission is having trouble keeping up with technological progress. It also exposes how dumb the Kiwi Share's requirement that local land line calls be free....
18 November 2004 - Gareth Morgan

Market Failure & the Victims
Kicking fund managers out of the advisory business is the only way to redress the market failure that is exploiting mum and dad investors....
20 May 2004 - Gareth Morgan

Forget Air NZ, Give Passengers a Fare Go
The ACCC in Australia has given the right message, let's trust our Commerce Commission not to buckle to political pressure and vested interest....
11 September 2003 - Gareth Morgan

Old Labour Diehards do it like they always did
This government loves to invest - not in our future, but in iconoclastic relics of our past....
19 June 2003 - Gareth Morgan

Power to the People?
Is protecting households from higher electricity prices a good thing? Not if you're laid off from the steel or pulp mill as a result....
8 May 2003 - Gareth Morgan

Let Air New Zealand go to the Wall
The company cannot survive without more cotton wool from either taxpayers or consumers. Let it go and let's have the most competitive outcome for our air transport sector....
22 April 2003 - Gareth Morgan

A Nuclear Response to our Regrettable Prime Minister
Not all our economic woes stem from inept foreign policy, although last week you could be forgiven for thinking they will be. Market regulatory policy has much to answer for....
10 April 2003 - Gareth Morgan

Breaking the Monopolies
Heavy handed regulation is only necessary where markets are dysfunctional. If those wanting privatisation paid cognisance of the need for markets to be competitive the Commerce Commission wouldn't be so busy....
27 March 2003 - Gareth Morgan