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Grattan Institute releases PM summer reading list

19 November 2013   Books+Publishing
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Australian public policy think tank Grattan Institute has released its annual summer reading list for the Prime Minister.

The list features ‘books and articles that the Prime Minister, or any Australian interested in public debate, will find both stimulating and cracking good reads’. The titles are:

  • Why Australia Prospered: The Shifting Sources of Economic Growth (Ian W McLean, Princeton University Press)
  • The Blunders of Our Governments (Anthony King & Ivor Crewe, Oneworld Publications)
  • The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way (Amanda Ripley, S&S)
  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Richard Flanagan, Vintage)
  • Average is Over: Powering America beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation (Tyler Cowen, Dutton)
  • ‘A Life Worth Ending’ (Michael Wolff, New York Magazine article).

 

According to the Grattan Institute, the list addresses ‘some of the most pressing problems facing Australia’, including maintaining economic growth, managing rising health costs, providing quality education and governing in a complex world.

This year the Grattan Institute has partnered on the list with Readings, which will sell the books at several launch events as well as in-store and online. For more information, visit the Grattan Institute website here.

 

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