Sir Robert Muldoon deployed the Economic Stabilisation Act 1948 to freeze wages, prices and rents and to introduce carless days. He didn’t bother Parliament: He regulated the country by executive fiat.
He explained: “You can do anything provided you hang your hat on economic
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