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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. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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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    Putin’s War Is Fueling Russian Stagflation

    Anders Åslund thinks a weakening economy will soon become a serious constraint on Vladimir Putin’s war machine.
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    What AI Means for Growth and Jobs

    Philippe Aghion, et al. think the technology has great potential to boost productivity without harming employment.
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    Shock-Proofing the UK Economy

    Mohamed A. El-Erian

    No country wants external developments to drive up its borrowing costs and weaken its currency, which is what the UK is facing today, together with serious cyclical and structural challenges. But if the British government responds appropriately, recent market volatility might turn out to have a silver lining.

    urges the government to communicate better what it is doing to boost resilient growth – and to do more.
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    As Trump Returns, Sino-Indian Relations Are Changing

    Debasish Roy Chowdhury explains why one of America’s key allies is hedging its bets amid escalating global tensions.
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    Ricardo Hausmann on immigration, climate finance, economic complexity, and more

    Ricardo Hausmann urges the US to issue more H1-B visas, argues that Europe must become a military superpower in its own right, applies the “growth diagnostics” framework to Venezuela, and more.
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    Will Trump Crack the Mystery of COVID’s Origin?

    Brahma Chellaney urges the incoming US administration to tighten rules governing risky “gain-of-function” research.
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    Social Media as It Should Be

    Robin Berjon explains how the Bluesky model could restore the original promise of the internet.
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    Trump’s Greenland Grab

    Carl Bildt

    Now that Donald Trump is returning to the White House, he believes that it is an “absolute necessity” for the United States to have “ownership and control” of Greenland. But as an autonomous Danish territory where the US military already operates, Greenland has no reason to abandon its current political arrangement.

    explains why the US president-elect's threats to seize the Danish territory are so dangerous.
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    Joe Biden’s Disappearing Legacy

    Richard Haass thinks the outgoing US president got some big things mostly right and some big things mostly wrong.

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