Geoff Mulgan

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I can think of nothing worse than a think-tank where everybody agreed.
- Geoff Mulgan
Collection: Thinking
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Learning isn't something you should only do solo.
- Geoff Mulgan
Collection: Should
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The longer you commute the less happy you're likely to be.
- Geoff Mulgan
Collection: Healthcare
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Adelaide is becoming a hub for higher education.
- Geoff Mulgan
Collection: Adelaide
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All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains.
- Geoff Mulgan
Collection: Real
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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
Collection: Financial
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Young people who were relaxed about posting every detail of their life on Facebook become a lot less relaxed when they realise just how transparent their life has become to future employers.
- Geoff Mulgan
Collection: People
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The central position of finance capital is going to come to an end, and it's going to steadily move to the sides, the margins of our society, transformed from being a master into a servant, a servant to the productive economy and of human needs.
- Geoff Mulgan
Collection: Motivation
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I'm not saying [economic] growth is wrong, but throughout the years of growth, many things didn't get better. ... If you look at America, the proportion of Americans with no one to talk to about important things went up from a tenth to a quarter.
- Geoff Mulgan
Collection: Years
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It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the US, quite a few of the ultra-rich have taken to heart the 19th century industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie's comment that it's a disgrace to die wealthy.
- Geoff Mulgan
Collection: Taken
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A lot of people in government don't really read books at all.
- Geoff Mulgan
Collection: Book
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Deeper fulfilment is rather different from the happiness of seeing a good film or watching your team win at football, and it doesn't come at the push of a button.
- Geoff Mulgan
Collection: Football
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The City of London has never been known for understanding technology and has never matched Silicon Valley's tradition of knowledgeable investment in technology start-ups, just as the U.K. government has never matched the vast investment made by the U.S. government.
- Geoff Mulgan
Collection: Technology
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There is incredible potential for digital technology in and beyond the classroom, but it is vital to rethink how learning is organised if we are to reap the rewards.
- Geoff Mulgan
Collection: Technology
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Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.
- Geoff Mulgan
Collection: Apathy