
Thinner than it should be, but not one book. New Zealand ran the most abrupt liberalisation of any OECD economy in 1984-90, redesigned its public sector, and invented central bank inflation targeting. Easton is the economic historian of record, Kelsey the critic, Douglas the insider.
How inflation targeting worked in the first countries to adopt it.
New Zealand's economic history from the Maori gift economy to climate policy.
The case for sweeping reform from the finance minister who forced it through.
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The post-war economy through the liberalisation, by its best chronicler.
The state-sector redesign other governments copied; contracts, outputs, accountability.
New Zealand's 1984-95 reforms: deregulation, privatisation and inflation targeting.