AI and climate change
I did a piece for Project Syndicate on how AI could contribute to action on climate change ahead of the COP gathering in Glasgow. I'm...
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Geoff Mulgan
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Exploratory social science
The New Institute has just published my paper on exploratory social science - how social science could play a more central role in...
Geoff Mulgan
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COVID-19 inquiries: how should they be run?
Boris Johnson has announced a UK inquiry into COVID-19 to start in 2022, a parallel one is being planned in Scotland, and many more will...
Geoff Mulgan
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Risky
This is a piece run by the Conversation - looking at how we think of risk, before, during and after the pandemic Life is risky and tends...
Geoff Mulgan
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Bullshit and intellectual fog
When I was younger I was often impressed with people who could speak confidently, in sweeping, quite abstract terms about big questions....
Geoff Mulgan
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How can the 2020s be progressive?
I was committed to write a paper for the recent Progressive Governance Summit that brought together leaders like Justin Trudeau, Helle...
Geoff Mulgan
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Spectating or doing: the challenge for the UK's ruling clique
The most powerful clique in the UK at the moment are linked to the Spectator magazine. They congregate around it and the Telegraph,...
Geoff Mulgan
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Public finance for the long-term
I've been working over the last year on a new framework for public finance - helping it to cope with long-term tasks, such as education,...
Geoff Mulgan
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Collective intelligence and the SDGs
I've been working quite a bit over the last few years on applying collective intelligence methods to global challenges, partly through...
Geoff Mulgan
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Collective mental health: the case for new measures and maps and a DSM5 for groups
The COVID-19 crisis has seriously damaged mental health all over the world. A high price has been paid by many children who’ve missed...
Geoff Mulgan
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Currys Law: how everything that can go wrong, will go wrong (& why Amazon will rule the world)
This is a boring blog. You can jump a few paragraphs down to the punchline if you like (and the latest update, from October 2021). It's...
Geoff Mulgan
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Thinking systems
This draft paper describes methods for understanding how vital everyday systems work, and how they could work better, through improved...
Geoff Mulgan
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Putting knowledge to work around COVID-19
This is my blog introducing the new International Public Policy Observatory on COVID: https://medium.com/policy-postings/putting-knowledg...
Geoff Mulgan
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Philanthropy and plumbing
My new blog on what philanthropy could be doing differently is published in Alliance: https://www.alliancemagazine.org/blog/fixing-the-pl...
Geoff Mulgan
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Impact investment, arts and culture: a field – at last – comes of age
This week brings the publication of an interesting new collection, website and programme - creativityculturecapital - which looks at...
Geoff Mulgan
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Steering through capability (& the advantages of not crashing or stalling)
HOW GOVERNMENTS CAN - AND SHOULD - STEER THEIR SOCIETIES Can a society be steered? Should governments even try to do that? Or should they...
Geoff Mulgan
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The case for exploratory social science
Should the social sciences only analyse the past and present? Or should they also try to help design the future? The recently created New...
Geoff Mulgan
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Reforming Tax: why it's a vital part of any just transition
The tax relationship lies at the core of politics. Getting it right unlocks possibilities of all kinds. Getting it wrong creates...
Geoff Mulgan
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Net zero: integrating data, digital & radical carbon reduction strategies
Achieving serious reductions in carbon emissions is arguably the greatest engineering challenge of the century. It requires changes to...
Geoff Mulgan
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A Mini Meta Manifesto – Three Ingredients to Add to Every Policy
Here I suggest a brief meta-manifesto: principles for reform and action that should now apply to many, if not most, areas of government...
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