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Geoff Mulgan

The case for a right to truth

We live in a world full of lies, distortions and misinformation. Should we have rights to be told the truth? If a government issues a…

18 min readMar 24, 2024

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Geoff Mulgan

The case for a right to truth

We live in a world full of lies, distortions and misinformation. Should we have rights to be told the truth? If a government issues a…

17 min readMar 22, 2024

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Geoff Mulgan

Stories for the future — and the power of opposites

In this piece I look at the role of stories in social and political imagination, from analogy and metaphor to the universal patterns found…

12 min readMar 17, 2024

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Geoff Mulgan

Thinking systems: how the systems we depend on can be helped to think and serve us better

Much of our life we depend on systems: interconnected webs of activity that link many organisations, technologies and people. These bring…

12 min readMar 11, 2021

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Geoff Mulgan

How can meetings make the most of collective intelligence — and not leave us miserable

Many of us spend much of our time in meetings. They are the everyday expression of collective intelligence — bringing groups together to…

19 min readFeb 22, 2021

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Geoff Mulgan

THE CASE FOR EXPLORATORY SOCIAL SCIENCES (or why social science lost sight of the future and how…

Summary

42 min readFeb 9, 2021

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THE CASE FOR EXPLORATORY SOCIAL SCIENCES (or why social science lost sight of the future and how…

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Geoff Mulgan

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…

8 min readSep 8, 2020

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Net zero: integrating data, digital & radical carbon reduction strategies

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Geoff Mulgan

A loop theory of wisdom — how do we respond to foolish times?

Is it possible for an organisation, a system or a society, to become wiser? If so, how could we make this real and not just a vague…

5 min readJul 1, 2020

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Geoff Mulgan

Impossible and inevitable: some thoughts on the road to global government

The current crisis has shown up just how weak many global institutions have become — with most of the work of containing COVID-19 done by…

16 min readJun 2, 2020

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Geoff Mulgan

Geoff Mulgan

Professor at UCL; ex-CEO of Nesta; author of many books; senior visiting scholar at Harvard; ex head of policy in UK Prime Minister's office

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