Boy, they keep looking for dark linings to silver clouds, don't they? Your author takes a Ministry of Health drinking test.

As SimCity seems a training ground for future urban planners, here are a few features I'd love to see incorporated in the new edition:

As an economist, shouldn't Gareth Morgan have run a cost-benefit analysis before recommending kitty genocide? PLUS: A common sense solution.

An economist says he would refuse to deliver a guilty verdict in a drug case or any other victimless crime - so why have him in the jury pool?

Canterbury University economics lecturer Eric Crampton says the government missed an opportunity to address long- and medium-term problems in the budget.