Project Western Australia: A Growth and Productivity Agenda for the Next Government by John Hyde & Andrew Pickford Mannkal Economic Education Foundation and the Institute of Public Affairs, 2012, 73 pages This slim book, published through two of Australia’s leading independent think-tanks, principally deserves attention as an important contribution to policy formulation. Although it focuses on Western Australia, the book is of national importance, given the interconnectedness of the state economies, and Western Australia’s disproportionately large contribution to national export income. Further, though the politically glamorous issues like border control, defence and foreign relations tend to be federal, this book…