Brian Easton

Pittsburgh

Writer at Freelance

Freelance writer. Excel wrangler. Player of games. Not Artur Gies. He/Him

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Articles

Open mike 21/04/2025

4 days ago | thestandard.org.nz | Nick Rockel |James Corera |Bethany J. Allen |Brian Easton

Written By: - Date published: 9:41 am, April 21st, 2025 - No comments Categories: open mike - Tags: Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
Open mike 20/04/2025

5 days ago | thestandard.org.nz | James Corera |Bethany J. Allen |Nick Rockel |Brian Easton

Written By: - Date published: 9:19 am, April 20th, 2025 - No comments Categories: open mike - Tags: Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
Countervailing Trumpian Sense — Pundit

2 weeks ago | pundit.co.nz | Brian Easton

A modest attempt to analyse Donald Trump’s tariff policies. Alfred Marshall, whose text book was still in use 40 years after he died wrote ‘every short statement about economics is misleading with the possible exception of my present one.’ (The text book is 719 pages.) It’s a timely reminder that any short analysis of Trump’s tariff initiatives is likely to be misleading and any long one will be so riddled with caveats that it will be impenetrable.
Resource management and property rights

2 weeks ago | interest.co.nz | Gareth Vaughan |David Hargreaves |Brian Easton

This is a re-post of an article originally published on pundit.co.nz. It is here with permission. While there have been decades of complaints – from all sides – about the workings of the Resource Management Act (RMA), replacing is proving difficult. The Coalition Government is making another attempt.
Open mike 06/04/2025

2 weeks ago | thestandard.org.nz | Nick Rockel |Bernard Hickey |Justin Bassi |Brian Easton

Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, April 6th, 2025 - No comments Categories: open mike - Tags: Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
Resource Management and Property Rights — Pundit

3 weeks ago | pundit.co.nz | Brian Easton

While there have been decades of complaints – from all sides – about the workings of the Resource Management Act (RMA), replacing is proving difficult. The Coalition Government is making another attempt.
Public-Private-Partnerships?

3 weeks ago | interest.co.nz | Gareth Vaughan |David Hargreaves |Brian Easton

This is a re-post of an article originally published on pundit.co.nz. It is here with permission. Public-Private-Partnerships (PPPs) have become fashionable again, partly because of the government’s ambitions to accelerate infrastructural development. There is, of course, an ideological element too, while some of the opposition to them is also ideological. PPPs come in so many different forms that it is tedious to characterise them all. Some of those forms have been used in the past.
Open mike 31/03/2025

3 weeks ago | thestandard.org.nz | Michael Pezzullo |Bernard Hickey |Brian Easton |William Leben
Open mike 30/03/2025

3 weeks ago | thestandard.org.nz | Michael Pezzullo |Bernard Hickey |Brian Easton |William Leben
Open mike 29/03/2025

3 weeks ago | thestandard.org.nz | Brian Easton |William Leben |David Slack |Raelene Lockhorst