Treasury: The New Zealand Treasury 1840-2000, by Malcolm McKinnon (Auckland, Auckland University Press), 2003, 526 pp, ISBN 1-86940-296-0 The Lost Art of Economics by David Colander (Cheltenham, Edward Elgar), x + 203 pp., ISBN 1 84064 694 2.

“Globalization in Historical Perspective”, a National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report, edited by M.D. Bordo, A.M. Taylor and J.G. Williamson. (The University of Chicago Press, 2003)

The Ministry of Economic Development ran a series of seminars about economic growth in 2004. One was an economic history of economic growth in New Zealand, three were on different and sometimes contradictory conceptual ways of thinking about economic growth – endogenous growth theory, Austrian...

Following the election of a Labour government in 1984, the New Zealand economy went through probably the most extensive market liberalization of any OECD country. It was in three broad phases: the increased use of the market mechanism to regulate business; reforms of the state sector; and reform...