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Andrew Leigh

Andrew Leigh, a former Professor of Economics at the Australian National University, is the Shadow Assistant Minister for Treasury.

Books & arts Andrew Leigh 25 September 2025 Statisticians are struggling to capture the twenty-first-century economy
Books & arts Andrew Leigh 30 August 2023 Are governments creating efficient online systems that don’t make us feel stupid? Books & arts Andrew Leigh 17 December 2020 Books | In a world saturated in statistics, Tim Harford is a vital guide Essays & reportage Andrew Leigh 27 November 2020 Books | Are myths about jobs stopping us from seeing our working lives clearly? National affairs Andrew Leigh 20 October 2020 Covid-19 could change how we work, for the better and — if we’re not careful — the worse
Essays & reportage Andrew Leigh 28 July 2019 Cutting working conditions won’t get us out of the current malaise
Books & arts Andrew Leigh 1 November 2018 New York managed to stop the school-to-crime pipeline without increasing the imprisonment rate. Meanwhile, Australia is investing heavily in jail-building Essays & reportage Andrew Leigh 15 June 2018 Thomas Piketty and his colleagues have used new data to track inequality and sharpen the choices we face Essays & reportage Andrew Leigh 30 September 2015 When America sneezes, writes Andrew Leigh, Australian state governments catch a cold. And when the weather turns bad, guess who’s held responsible? National affairs Andrew Leigh 28 May 2015 There’s no such thing as “us” and “them,” writes Andrew Leigh. A good social safety net is there for all of us
National affairs Andrew Leigh 12 May 2015 Andrew Leigh takes a data-driven look at what the critics say about young Australians
National affairs Andrew Leigh 31 July 2014 John Howard’s gun buyback scheme had more than one benefit, writes Andrew Leigh in this extract from his new book Essays & reportage Andrew Leigh 18 April 2014 A new study finds social status rippling across the centuries Essays & reportage Andrew Leigh 4 July 2013 Disagreements about acceptable levels of inequality often rest on a misunderstanding of the existing distribution of income and wealth, writes Andrew Leigh National affairs Andrew Leigh 13 May 2011 Andrew Leigh looks at evidence of growing inequality in OECD countries