NZIER and BusinessDesk play Santa for Christopher Luxon

If the beach cricket gets boring, NZIER has books for you, prime minister. (Image: NZME)

Thu, 28 Nov 2024

The impact of social media on children, the need to relocate communities hit by climate change, the rise of misinformation and the crisis of capitalist democracies beckon for Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, should he contemplate any time in an easy chair this Christmas.The annual Summer Reading List for the PM from the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (NZIER), in partnership with BusinessDesk, may not at first glance seem to offer the kind of rattling page-turner that holidays are made of.It does, however, suggest six current books...

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