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Why Australia Gave Up on Getting Richer

McKinsey's Chris Bradley on why Australia stopped investing—and why he believes the poorest country in the world could live as well as Switzerland does today by 2100.

Claire Lehmann
· 1 min read
Claire, a blonde woman in a camel blazer, faces Chris, a bearded man in a dark jacket, against a muted collage of cityscapes, technology, mountains and foliage.
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Last week I interviewed Chris Bradley, a director of the McKinsey Global Institute and one of the authors of A Century of Plenty, a book about what he calls the machine of progress—workers, skills, investment, invention, energy, cities, trade, and markets—and how they compounded into the most prosperous century in human history. He’s one of the sharpest thinkers I’ve had in front of me. Here’s the conversation.

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