Viral epidemics have been part of human civilisation for centuries. Black Death in the fourteenth and Plague in the seventeenth, are only the most famous but there were many more…
Category: Policy making
Changing drivers of change – geo-political dynamics
The third of our revised set of drivers of change is an combination of three drivers from our previous set – poly-nodal world, economic growth and social cohesion (including inequality)…
Coronavirus – Welfare or IP?
The following article, by SAMI Fellow Richard Walsh, was originally published in the April edition of the IPTF newsletter. A few weeks ago when Italy was at the centre of the…
Business and the Public Good - Part 2
In a previous blogpost, I outlined the problems caused by business narrowly focussing on their own interests. Here I look at some ways forward. THE PUBLIC GOOD Adam Smith said…
Business and the Public Good: Part 1
Coronavirus, and its effect on our personal, family and working lives, is leading many of us to think differently about things we have previously taken for granted or not thought…
Global Satisfaction with Democracy 2020
The Centre for the Future of Democracy was launched in January 2020 to explore the challenges and opportunities faced by democratic politics over the coming century. Based at the Bennett Institute for…