Grant Robertson carries the Living Standards framework documents to caucus. Photo: Lynn Grieveson

Dr Eric Crampton

Dr Eric Crampton is Chief Economist at The New Zealand Initiative.

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Politics and the price of a life, or a friend

Whether you like it or not, politics implicitly puts a price on everything. Making those prices explicit, rather than implicit, is often for the best, writes Eric Crampton.

Last week, Thomas Coughlin reported that “the wellbeing framework that