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Varun Gauri on Redesigning Information

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29 May 2015

Co-director of the 2015 World Development Report, Varun Gauri argues that development policy and assistance is due for a re-design, based on a more realistic understanding of how human beings think and behave.
Anthony Painter on New Technology

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26 May 2015

What challenges and opportunities do new technologies pose for the ‘power to create’, and how can our institutions adapt to these changes? The RSA’s Director of Policy and Strategy Anthony Painter presents a set of major new institutional ideas.
William Davies on the Happiness Agenda

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22 May 2015

Writer and sociologist William Davies visits the RSA to argue that the happiness agenda has blinded policymakers and corporations to the contextual and societal context of disadvantage.
David Graeber on a Fair Future Economy

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19 May 2015

David Graeber, anthropologist and leading figure in the Occupy movement, visits the RSA to consider what it would take to build a flourishing, sustainable and just future economy.
Adrian Wooldridge on the Age of Disruption

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15 May 2015

The Economist’s management editor Adrian Wooldridge examines how widespread disruption and innovation will have an impact on the future of economics and work.
Matthew Crawford on Crisis of Attention

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08 May 2015

Matthew Crawford, argues that our current crisis of attention, dissatisfaction with ourselves and alienation from other people, is the result of long-held assumptions
Andy Gibson on Mental Health

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05 May 2015

Andy Gibson, Founder of Mindapples, visits the RSA to argue that the time has come for us to put the needs of our minds at the heart of how we run our businesses.
Geoff Mulgan on the Centre of Government

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01 May 2015

Once the dust has settled from the General Election, whoever is Prime Minister will face an important choice: how to organise and run the centre of government. Geoff Mulgan, chief executive of Nesta, suggests a range of transformative changes to how centre of government works.
After the Polls: predicting the post-election landscape

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29 Apr 2015

A panel of experts gather in advance of the general election to discuss potential outcomes and post-election landscapes. Featuring popular political commentators Janan Ganesh, Miranda Green and Tim Bale.
Zac Goldsmith on Transforming UK Politics

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24 Apr 2015

Voter frustration with politics has been growing for years. Maverick MP Zac Goldsmith visits the RSA to ask - is it time for a shift towards a more direct democracy?