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Andrew Leigh

April

Federal treasurer Jim Chalmers and ACCC chairwoman Gina Cass-Gottlieb are reshaping Australia’s competition laws for the 21st century.

Labor’s making merger law fit for a modern economy

The government’s reforms will make Australia’s approval system faster, stronger, simpler, more targeted and more transparent.

Daniel Kahneman, the author of Thinking, Fast and Slow.

The man who discovered people hate losing more than they like winning

Daniel Kahneman was one of the few psychologists to win the Nobel Prize for economics.

February

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Megacorps are the 21st century’s great threat

Labor minister and economist Andrew Leigh argues that companies as big, financially, as nations are a danger to consumers and their employees.

February 2023

The NSW Drug Court system was shown to be effective and was adopted elsewhere.

Let’s stop governments from making the same mistake twice

Many government programs start with too little evidence to back them up, and no study of what worked and what did not. That is going to change.

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