Andrew Leigh

In the list below, we’ve tried to include a range of economics books, mostly accessible to the general reader: “It’s his look at how you resolve the dilemma that has emerged in the last 200 years of economic growth being both the most potent way of increasing prosperity and reducing poverty, while at the same time a catalyst for widening inequality and environmental depredation. So the good and the bad of growth: what is the solution to the tension between the two?

A powerful parliamentary committee has called for the government to ban PwC Australia from tendering for government work until it demonstrates it has fixed its practice. Members of the parliamentary joint committee on corporations and financial services have finalised their unanimous report into accounting, auditing and consulting firms, with the first of the 40 recommendations being a demand for a tendering ban on the global accounting firm.

If Australia’s constitution were drafted today, it would be very different to the document we seem to hold so sacrosanct. Some of the content would likely be similar. But some would likely not. The context in which it is written would also be very different. Even the process for drafting the constitution would be very different. Women and Australia’s First Peoples would play major roles in the process, rather than none at all.