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Jules Evans
Jules Evans is a freelance journalist and writer, who covers two main areas: philosophy and psychology (for publications including The Times, Psychologies, New Statesman and his website, Philosophy for Life), and emerging markets (for publications including The Spectator, Economist, Times, Euromoney and Financial News).
A technocratic solution to a spiritual question
There is a danger that we have become not just trapped in the ‘prison of GDP’, but trapped in the prison of statistics. We have become trapped in the idea...
The Great Stagnation! (don’t panic)
According to the FT, the “most talked-about non-fiction book of the year” is the economist Tyler Cowen’s The Great Stagnation, more of a long essay really,...
The benefits and costs of altruism
Daniel Batson, the social psychologist, has recently brought out what is probably his defining work on the topic he has studied for 30 years, Altruism In...
Keith Olbermann quotes GD (and then gets fired)
Nice to see Keith Olbermann reads Global Dashboard. In January, shortly before MSNBC fired him, Olbermann did a story on the US Army's ambitious resilience...
Should governments measure well-being?
Here's a brief video of an event I attended yesterday, held by the Franco-British Council, about new French and British government initiatives to measure...
Should we hold G8 summits in space?
Astronaut Edgar Mitchell thinks so. I interviewed Dr Mitchell about how the 'big picture effect' transformed many astronauts, including him. For best results,...
I’ve been nudged (and I liked it)
So last week, I sent off an application for a provisional driver's license (I know, I know - 33 and still can't drive). At the bottom of the DVLA application...
From BRICs to PIGS: what’s in a name?
First there was BRICs. Then came CIVETS. Then we were presented with BASIC, CRIM, BRICK, CEMENT, BEM, N11 and the 7% Club. Now barely a week goes by before...
ECB stands firm (sort of)
The ECB yesterday slightly increased its bond purchasing programme, but did not push the nuclear button and announce some huge new programme of QE or bank...
Eurovision Sov Contest
The European sovereign bond markets are a bit calmer today, after ECB central bank governor Jean-Claude Trichet said the ECB might continue with its bond...
The Rise of the Neo-Aristotelians
I'm excited about going to see Alasdair MacIntyre talk today. I think he's the most influential living philosopher, and it's a rare chance to see him speak in...
SEAL: ‘we get a little crazy’
I've been looking into a curriculum subject introduced by New Labour in 2003, called Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL). It began as a voluntary...
Nudging the Issue
News here that David Cameron has approved the establishment of a 'behavioural insight' unit, led by policy advisor David Halpern, to find ways to implement...
Drawing over-hasty conclusions
Here's a new RSA animation in which Matthew Taylor, former head of the Institute for Public Policy Research and now chief executive of the RSA, sets out what...
Beyond Liberalism
One way to understand the modern politics of wellbeing - by which I mean the introduction of policies by governments aimed at cultivating the ‘wellbeing’,...
The laboratory of resilience
I've spent an enjoyable weekend reading Charles Emmerson's Future History of the Arctic. Charles, a friend of Global Dashboard's, looks at the opening up of...
Mental sickness and the welfare state
It's interesting the way British public policy is beginning to bring together unemployment policy with mental health policy. The British government today...
Get ready to switch off the QE boosters…
At the beginning of this year, there was a lot of concern about whether the government bond markets could absorb the record amounts of debt being issued by...
More climate debate frenzy
Wow, who says democracy is dead? The nay-sayers should check out this incredible debate on the crucial issue of the day - climate change - which happened on...
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Justice is missing the boat
The year 2020 will go down in history as the year when much changed. One thing seems to remain constant: the fact that the justice sector is slow to change. As a consequence, it seems to be missing a rather big boat. Good things often come out of bad things. It is no...
An emerging ministers of justice movement
Since April, we have been calling for justice leaders of the world to get out of their national cubby holes and come together to share fears, failures, successes, and strategies, just like public health ministers are doing. The COVID-19 crisis is too big and too...
Un mouvement émergent des Ministres de la Justice
Depuis le mois d'avril, nous appelons les leaders de la justice du monde entier à sortir de leur cagibi national et à se réunir afin de partager leurs craintes, leurs échecs, leurs succès ainsi que leurs stratégies, comme le font les ministres de la santé publique. La...