Alcohol costs grossly exaggerated
Two economists – Eric Crampton and Matt Burgess, has scrutinised a report by BERL, which cost the Government $135,000. The BERL report concluded the annual social costs of alcohol was $4.79 billion...
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I have previously covered the damning critique done my Eric Cramption and Matt Burgess of the BERL study which found the cost of alcohol consumption was around $5 billion a year. Crampton and Burgess...
View ArticleBERL responds
I’m pleased to see that BERL have responded to some of the criticism of their report concluding the cost of alcohol abuse in NZ was close to $5 billion a year. Treasury have apologised to BERL for some...
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BERL have done a fuller response to the criticism of their study. An extract: BERL freely accept comment and debate on our publicly released reports. The project brief for this study was focussed on...
View ArticleAlcohol costs grossly exaggerated
Two economists – Eric Crampton and Matt Burgess, has scrutinised a report by BERL, which cost the Government $135,000. The BERL report concluded the annual social costs of alcohol was $4.79 billion...
View ArticleEric the murdering economist
I have previously covered the damning critique done my Eric Cramption and Matt Burgess of the BERL study which found the cost of alcohol consumption was around $5 billion a year. Crampton and Burgess...
View ArticleBERL responds
I’m pleased to see that BERL have responded to some of the criticism of their report concluding the cost of alcohol abuse in NZ was close to $5 billion a year. Treasury have apologised to BERL for some...
View ArticleMore on BERL
BERL have done a fuller response to the criticism of their study. An extract: BERL freely accept comment and debate on our publicly released reports. The project brief for this study was focussed on...
View ArticleBad spending can make a recession worse
Matt Burgess writes: History tells us well-intentioned governments can prolong rather than resolve depressions with poor spending. In the United States, interventions in the economy in the 1930s,...
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