In the Bretton-Woods era the controversy over cross-border use of national monies turned on how to create ‘symmetries' and avoid significant ‘asymmetries' in the way national currencies shared specific international currency functions. We examine the twentieth-century work of prominent...

We examine the history of economic thought on trade policy in New Zealand from the 1920s to the early 1980s. The focus is upon the different doctrinal perspectives taken by academic economists in New Zealand. Throughout the period under review policymakers supported an inward-looking trade and...

We examine contrasting modalities of economic thought by economists on population problems and policies in NZ, 1900–1980s. Since the early 1900s NZ economists have been concerned with interactions between economic and demographic outcomes. During the inter war period Malthusian concerns were...