New Zealand economic policy between the Second World War and Rogernomics has often been criticised as insulated, inefficient and inimical to growth. Judgements of all Kinds challenges such assessments by explaining New Zealand policy-making within its historical context. New Zealand in 1945 was one of the smallest independent states, one of the most dependent on external trade, and thus one of the least in control of its economic fate. The Depression and the War provoked the development of a historically distinctive policy regime, committed to full employment and economic development. Judgements of all Kinds focuses on two broad themes: maintaining and adapting the postwar regime, and the profound transformation of New Zealand's small settler economy. Based on extensive research in official archives, this book offers a perspective from the 'engine-room', emphasising the perceptions, ideas, competing interests and external context that shaped the views and actions of the ministers and officials involved in managing, and developing, a small dependent economy.