Story: Prices and inflation

More links and websites

• Inflation and the Tax System

  The Reserve Bank site gives details on how the 1989 act governs its behaviour in controlling inflation (PDF 412KB).

• Statistics New Zealand

  Statistics New Zealand provides data on price changes over time.

• What is Inflation?

  The Reserve Bank site gives details on inflation, its behaviour, measuring it, and its effects.

More suggestions and sources

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

• Hawke, Gary. Making of New Zealand: an economic history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

• McIlraith, James W. The course of prices in New Zealand: an inquiry into the nature and causes of the variations in the standard of value in New Zealand. Wellington: Government Printer, 1911.