Overarching Visions

We launched the Madison Initiative to tackle the problem of democratic dysfunction, which we have addressed with a strategy focused on the practice of politics — looking for levers to reduce or mitigate the tribalism that prevents our elected officials from working […]

Beyond Capital and Wealth: Challenges of the G20

We live in an economically integrated, but socially fragmented world. The forces of globalization have made the citizens of most nations economically interdependent, while national boundaries keep them socially disconnected. Under these circumstances, economic progress can easily become decoupled from social progress. […]

Realigning Business, Economies and Society

The nature and purpose of an economy. It is useful to begin with a fairly fundamental question regarding the nature and purpose of an economy in the first instance – not least since this is often assumed in discussions and debates, and […]

Advancing Human-Centred Economic Progress in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: A Leadership Agenda for G20 Governments

Since the First Industrial Revolution, the development and wide adoption of new technologies have been the most significant contributors to both economic growth rates and increases in living standards. Prior to 1800, the average annual per capita growth rate in European countries […]

Empower, Include, and Inspire: G20 Public Leadership to Advance Responsibility, Resilience and Sustainability for a Fair Global Economy

COMMUNICATION FOR A MORE DIRECT RELATIONSHIP WITH CITIZENS: A new communication approach by Leaders is part of the solution, but the contents must also avoid technical discourse bubbling up from Ministerial meetings and Working Groups. Only then can citizens understand the proposed […]

Creating a Future Where All Are Valuable – A New Narrative for the Richer Countries in the World

A New Narrative What is needed is a new type of economy that is open, dynamic, and entrepreneurial while also being fair, locally rooted and where everybody feels valued. It needs to keep the best features of globalisation while directly addressing globalisation’s […]

Technological Change, Inequality and The Collapse of the Liberal Order

We believe that what is needed is a substantial effort to change the course of the tendencies of material decline of a large group of the population, the middle classes, through renewed efforts to provide them with opportunities to pre-empt or remedy […]

Can the G20 Save Globalisation?

The Case for Saving Globalisation Globalisation – the increasing integration among countries and peoples via the movement of goods, services, capital, labour, images and ideas across borders – faces a widespread backlash of unprecedented ferocity today. Britain’s decision to leave the European […]

Reconceptualising Transnational Governance: Making Global Institutions Fit for Purpose

Vision Although it usually requires a major, destructive war before states seek to create a new political-economic order, this is not a prerequisite. We are intelligent beings, and can start the process of creating a new world order without waiting for a […]

Research-based policy advice to the G20

5 important steps for evidence-based policy design In principle, evidence-based policy design involves five important steps. Identify urgent policy problems. This is an obvious step, although the prioritization of problems that require policy redress is clearly open to debate even within government […]