Owen Gaffney·Feb 24, 2023Democracy4AllI have lived in three democracies and a fragile, dysfunctional basket case: Ireland, Sweden, mainland Britain and Northern Ireland.A response icon1A response icon1
Owen Gaffney·Dec 22, 2021Don’t Look UpOn what might unfold if astronomers announce an asteroid on a collision course with our home planet
Owen Gaffney·Dec 20, 2021Earth’s poles: from science fiction to Greek tragedyThere’s a moment in the Mars trilogy written by science fiction Kim Stanley Robinson when news reaches the Martian settlers of a…
Owen Gaffney·Dec 19, 2020Top 20 books of 2020These are my top 20 books I read in 2020. Most were published in 2020. I read more book this year than I have in decades. Together, the…
InCuriousbyOwen Gaffney·Oct 19, 20204 Brilliant New Books about Economics Explain How We Got in This Mess and How We Get OutIn the last few months several fascinating books on economic history and innovation have come out. Together they tell a powerful narrative…A response icon1A response icon1
InCuriousbyOwen Gaffney·Oct 8, 2020The Apocalypse Reviewed (Non-fiction)Some really brilliant books have been published already in 2020. I am thinking of Stephanie Koulton’s Deficit Myth and Zachary Carter’s…
Owen Gaffney·Mar 18, 20208 conditions governments should place on economic stimulus packages for Covid19This article building on the ideas in two recent articles by Glen Peters in The Conversation (16 March) and Mariana Mazzucato in the…
Owen Gaffney·Dec 1, 2019Antarctic Treaty at 6012 nations signed the treaty on 1 December 1959 to devote the region to “peace and science”. Somehow, this worked. Here are three reasons…
InEdmund Hillary FellowshipbyOwen Gaffney·Oct 16, 2019We knewThis is speculative fiction. What if the United States fails to treat the climate emergency as an emergency through successive elections…
Owen Gaffney·Apr 15, 201914 steps to turn exponential thinking into action“If you have a 10-year plan of how to get [somewhere], you should ask: Why can’t you do this in 6 months?”, Peter Thiel.
