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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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    Trump at the Gates

    Joschka Fischer urges Europeans to recognize that they are now on their own in an increasingly dangerous world.
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    The End of Progress?

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Though the United States has long led the world in advancing basic science and technology, it is hard to see how this can continue under President Donald Trump and the country’s ascendant oligarchy. America’s rejection of Enlightenment values will have dire consequences.

    predicts that Donald Trump’s second administration will be defined by its rejection of Enlightenment values.
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    China’s Trump Dilemma

    Yanis Varoufakis

    Will the China hawks in Donald Trump’s administration railroad him into a confrontation that transcends tariffs and embraces financial sanctions of the type the US and the European Union imposed on Russia? If they do, China's leaders will have to decide whether to decouple from the dollar-based international monetary system.

    thinks the real choice facing Chinese leaders may be whether to challenge the dollar's hegemony head-on.
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    The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap

    Pascal Lamy, et al. explain how investments in African agri-food systems can advance many of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.
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    Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami hears echoes of the Monroe Doctrine in the US president's threats to acquire Greenland.
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    How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

    Glenn Hubbard urges policymakers to focus on the three pillars of increased productivity.
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    Trump’s First Test Will Be the Bond Market

    Jim O'Neill wonders if recent market signals will keep the new administration’s radicalism in check.
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    The TikTok Boomerang

    Angela Huyue Zhang thinks the US government's ban on the app has left it in an untenable position.

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