Story: Economic history

More links and websites

• The Reserve Bank – The Reserve Bank and New Zealand’s economic history

  This is a well-illustrated short history of the New Zealand economy with special reference to the place of the Reserve Bank since the 1930s (PDF, 2.41 MB).

• University of Canterbury – The pastoral boom, the rural land market and long swings in New Zealand economic growth

  This research paper by David Greasley and Les Oxley examines the effects of New Zealand’s pastoral boom on the economy from 1873 to 1939 (PDF, 200 KB).

More suggestions and sources

• Briggs, Phil. Looking at the numbers: a view of New Zealand’s economic history. Wellington: New Zealand Institute of Economic Research, 2003.

• Condliffe, J. B. New Zealand in the making: a study of economic and social development. 2nd ed. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1959.

• Easton, Brian. In stormy seas: the post-war New Zealand economy. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1997.

• Gould, J. D. The rake’s progress?: the New Zealand economy since 1945. Auckland: Hodder & Stoughton, 1982.

• Hawke, G. R. The making of New Zealand: an economic history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.