Quotes by Geoff Mulgan

About Geoff Mulgan:

Geoff Mulgan is Chief Executive of the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA) and Visiting Professor at University College London, the London School of Economics and the University of Melbourne. Previously he was:
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As with products on supermarket shelves, the public has a right to know where their financial products and services come from.

Geoff Mulgan

Radicalism is as British as tea and cakes, as much a part of our make-up as monarchy and football. It will never have its own jubilees, palaces or honours system.

Geoff Mulgan

Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are scarce, or there are strong historical memories of conflict, small events are more likely to inflame passions.

Geoff Mulgan

Advisers who think that they are very clever while all around them are a bit thick, and that all the problems of the world would be solved if the thick listened to the clever, are liable to be disappointed.

Geoff Mulgan

Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic innovation in such things as child development or cutting crime.

Geoff Mulgan

Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring.

Geoff Mulgan

States which used to communicate directly to their citizens now do so through the media, where their messages are reshaped by the logics of news values and commentary.

Geoff Mulgan

In every capitalist economy there are anti-capitalist movements, activists, and even political parties; in a way, that there are no longer anti-democratic movements, activists, and parties.

Geoff Mulgan

All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains.

Geoff Mulgan

Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.

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Vigorous independent and critical media are indispensable in a democracy.

Geoff Mulgan

Bangalore has become a centre for healthcare.

Geoff Mulgan

Cities simply don't have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers.

Geoff Mulgan

Courses can, and should, incorporate the excitement and fun of programming games, apps or even real digital devices.

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People don't want charities to usurp the state as the core provider of social services.

Geoff Mulgan

It matters more how governments behave than how big they are.

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I have a lot of admiration for people willing to face the public, but I'd prefer not to.

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I can think of nothing worse than a think-tank where everybody agreed.

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I didn't much like being in Parliament physically. I found it a bit depressing. It's very dark and heavy. I like being out and about.

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Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks.

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Freecycle groups match people who have things they want to get rid of with people who can use them.

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Author Bio

  • NameGeoff Mulgan
  • DescriptionBritish political advisor
  • Born1961
  • AwardsCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire