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Geoff Mulgan

Geoff Mulgan

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Geoff Mulgan, a professor at University College London, is the author of When Science Meets Power (Polity, 2024).

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  1. Building the Next Generation of Public Institutions
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    Building the Next Generation of Public Institutions

    Feb 25, 2025 Geoff Mulgan touts new thinking about how to design agile, flexible, and trustworthy governance mechanisms.

  2. The Right to Truth
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    The Right to Truth

    Aug 14, 2024 Geoff Mulgan outlines how policymakers could reduce the spread of lies, distortions, and misinformation.

  3. What Green AI Needs
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    What Green AI Needs

    Sep 20, 2021 Geoff Mulgan identifies the structural hurdles that must be removed to make the most of digital climate solutions.

  4. The Game Changer Beyond AI
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    The Game Changer Beyond AI

    Apr 24, 2020 Geoff Mulgan shows why technologies that capitalize on human capabilities are better than those that replace them.

  5. Happiness by Design
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    Happiness by Design

    Nov 12, 2015 Geoff Mulgan explains how happiness can be taught – and even legislated.

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    Countering Trump’s Politics of Fear

    Koichi Hamada calls for a new set of policies that responds to, rather than dismisses, US voters’ legitimate fears.
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    Where Are the Democrats?

    Reed Galen lambasts the party for sitting by and watching America implode, in the misguided hope of winning the midterms.
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    Signs of a US Recession

    Dambisa Moyo catalogues several indicators suggesting that the world's largest economy is headed for a slump.
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    Trump’s Trade War

    Less than two months into his second presidency, Donald Trump has imposed sweeping tariffs on America’s three largest trading partners, with much more to come. This strategy not only lacks any credible theoretical foundations; it is putting the US on a path toward irrevocable economic and geopolitical decline.

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    Why Frugal AI Alone Won’t Fix AI’s Energy Problem

    Boris Ruf explains why shifting the responsibility for reducing AI’s carbon footprint to end users is counterproductive.
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    The Global South’s Path to Economic Resilience

    Anwar Ibrahim

    Today's profound global uncertainty is not some accident of history or consequence of values-free technologies. Rather, it reflects the will of rival great powers that continue to ignore the seminal economic and social changes underway in other parts of the world.

    explains how Malaysia and other middle powers are navigating increasingly uncertain geopolitical terrain.
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    America’s “HIP” Economy

    Todd G. Buchholz sees developments and breakthroughs in health, information, and power as grounds for optimism.
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    Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

    Andrés Velasco reflects on the tragic fate of the country that took him in as a teenage refugee from Augusto Pinochet's Chile.
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    The Global Divide Over the Ukraine War

    Brahma Chellaney urges all parties to adopt a realistic approach to a deadlocked conflict and negotiate accordingly.

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