By Eliza Baring, IIPP MPA student A Big Society, or a small state? A vision for thriving communities, able to exercise countervailing power; or a thinly veiled attempt to cut public spending, shifting the burdens of the welfare state onto community and voluntary organisations? This blog looks at the coalition…

By Marina Leite Brandão A t the end of January 2022, IIPP launched the Sustainable Development Solutions Network’s UK (SDSN UK), a network comprised of research-intensive Higher Education Institutions mobilised around practical solutions to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We have had the pleasure to interview Prof. Carole…

By Hilary Cottam This is the final blog in a new series about the future of work. The series reflects on workshops that were held in five locations across Britain over the past two years. The project has been generously funded by Laudes Foundation, Open Society Foundation and James Anderson. …

By Asker Voldsgaard (UCL IIPP), Florian Egli (Zürich ETH) and Hector Pollitt (University of Cambridge) Classic monetary theory implies that raising interest rates is an effective way to counter raising prices. However, there may be a green collateral damage to this strategy. Many green energy technologies are more capital intensive…

By Adam Cantwell-Corn, IIPP MPA student I n the foreword to the government’s much trailed Energy Security Strategy in April prompted by the invasion of Ukraine, Johnson repeated a slogan of making the UK “the Saudi Arabia of wind”. It’s a positive change from his 2013 statement that wind power…

By Laurie Macfarlane This blog is a follow up to the event ‘The SDGs as an asset class? Getting serious about green finance for development’. The event is part of IIPP’s ‘Walking the talk: Getting serious about the UN Sustainable Development Goals’ series. …

By Carlota Perez Since the Industrial Revolution began in England in the 1770s, the process of diffusion of each successive technological revolution has taken between forty and sixty years. In each case, the first half of this period was typically a turbulent ‘installation period’ of creative destruction, and the second…

By Hilary Cottam This is the fifth blog in a new series about the future of work. The series reflects on workshops that were held in five locations across Britain over the past two years. The project has been generously funded by Laudes Foundation, Open Society Foundation and James Anderson. …