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...

We examine Ralph W. Souter's defence, in the 1930s, of Marshall's Principles against Robbins' attempt to recast economics as a ‘purely formal science of implications'. Souter elaborated on Marshall's invocations progressively to increase the realism of economic science and contrasted this...

<italic>We examine various, sometimes divergent, conceptions of capital and its structure in the Austrian tradition from Menger (</italic><italic>1871</italic><italic>) to Lachmann (</italic><italic>1956</italic><italic>). We outline Menger’s methodological and philosophical position that recommends investigating the morphology of capital—its shape, form, and...</italic>