Since 'Choosing Openness' was published, Nazi sympathisers have entered the German parliament, and an anti-immigrant millennial has been elected Austrian chancellor.
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Andrew Leigh is the Shadow Assistant Treasurer and Federal Member for Fenner. Prior to entering the Australian Parliament in 2010, Andrew was a professor of economics at the Australian National University. Andrew holds a PhD in public policy from Harvard, having graduated from the University of Sydney with first class honours in Law and Arts. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences, and a past recipient of the Economic Society of Australia’s ‘Young Economist Award’. His previous books include The Luck of Politics, The Economics of Just About Everything and Battlers and Billionaires.