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Article: No Need to Idolise the Rich
16 September 2011, Roger Kerr
The virtues of allowing people to spend their own money while widening their opportunities through open competitive markets should not be disparaged as favouring the interests of rich people. Indeed one of the most important aspects of economics is, in my view, the application of orthodox principles to raising people out of poverty.
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Article: Council Democracy and Performance Must Be Improved
19 July 2010, Roger Kerr, The Dominion Post
The job of councils should be to provide public good services – services that can’t be provided efficiently by firms or the voluntary sector. Otherwise councils crowd out the private sector, run commercial businesses less efficiently on average, and harm economic growth.
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