The strategies adopted by governments and public officials can have dramatic effects on peoples' lives. The best ones can transform economic laggards into trailblazers, eliminate diseases, or sharply cut crime. Strategic failures can result in highly visible disasters, like the shrinking of the Russian economy in the 1990s, or the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005. This book is about how strategies take shape, and how money, people, technologies, and public commitment can be mobilized to achieve important goals. It considers the common mistakes made, and how these can...
The strategies adopted by governments and public officials can have dramatic effects on peoples' lives. The best ones can transform economic laggards ...
The recent economic crisis was a dramatic reminder that capitalism can both produce and destroy. It's a system that by its very nature encourages predators and creators, locusts and bees. But, as Geoff Mulgan argues in this compelling, imaginative, and important book, the economic crisis also presents a historic opportunity to choose a radically different future for capitalism, one that maximizes its creative power and minimizes its destructive force.
In an engaging and wide-ranging argument, Mulgan digs into the history of capitalism across the world to show its animating ideas,...
The recent economic crisis was a dramatic reminder that capitalism can both produce and destroy. It's a system that by its very nature encourages p...
Geoff Mulgan, a pioneer in the global field of social innovation - the deliberate invention of new solutions to meet social needs - explains how it provides answers to the most pressing global social, economic and sustainability problems. Building on his experience as a social entrepreneur, policy maker, funder and adviser to governments, businesses and foundations, he argues for matching research and development in technology and science with a socially focused research and development and for harnessing creative imagination on a larger scale than ever before. He shows how social...
Geoff Mulgan, a pioneer in the global field of social innovation - the deliberate invention of new solutions to meet social needs - explains how it pr...
