#  Andrew Leigh 

PhD in Public Policy, 2004.

Member of Parliament, Australia.

Shadow Assistant Treasurer and Shadow Minister for Competition.

 

 

 



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Professor of Economics, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 2004-2010.

   ![Innovation + Equality, by Joshua Fans and Andrew Leigh](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/inequality/files/leighbk19.jpg?itok=dVofPRv3) 

 

Andrew Leigh's latest book (with Joshua Gans), [Innovation + Equality](https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/innovation-equality), has been published by MIT Press (2019)   ![Randomistas, by Andrew Leigh](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/inequality/files/leighbk18.jpg?itok=89LSlVFK) 

 

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 of [Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Are Changing Our World](https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300236125/randomistas), Yale University Press (2018). Published in Australia by La Trobe University Press, Black Inc. Publishing (2018) [View ► ](https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/randomistas)

 Author of [The Luck of Politics](https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/luck-politics), Black Inc. Publishing (2015).

 Author of [The Economics of Just About Everything](http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=94&book=9781743314715), Allen & Unwin (2014).

 Author of [Battlers and Billionaires: The Story of Inequality in Australia](http://www.blackincbooks.com/books/battlers-and-billionaires), Black Inc. Publishing (2013).

 Andrew Leigh's first book, [Disconnected](http://www.amazon.com/Disconnected-Andrew-Leigh/dp/1742231535), has been published by the University of New South Wales Press (2010).

 *Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Early Career Award, 2006.*

   ![Battlers and Billionaires, by Andrew Leigh](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/inequality/files/leighbk15.jpg?itok=sZouoGEb) 

 

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   ![Disconnected, by Andrew Leigh](/sites/g/files/omnuum5566/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/inequality/files/leighbk10_0.jpg?itok=U2DJ_3jp) 

 



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Alumni department
    
     [Public Policy](/alumni-department/public-policy)
- ## Alumni year
    
     [2004](/alumni-year/2004)
- ## Roles
    
     [PhD Alumni](/alumni)