Owen GaffneyDemocracy4AllI have lived in three democracies and a fragile, dysfunctional basket case: Ireland, Sweden, mainland Britain and Northern Ireland.Feb 24, 20231Feb 24, 20231
Owen GaffneyDon’t Look UpOn what might unfold if astronomers announce an asteroid on a collision course with our home planetDec 22, 2021Dec 22, 2021
Owen GaffneyEarth’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…Dec 20, 2021Dec 20, 2021
Owen GaffneyTop 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…Dec 19, 2020Dec 19, 2020
Owen GaffneyinCurious4 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…Oct 19, 20201Oct 19, 20201
Owen GaffneyinCuriousThe 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…Oct 8, 2020Oct 8, 2020
Owen Gaffney8 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…Mar 18, 2020Mar 18, 2020
Owen GaffneyAntarctic 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…Dec 1, 2019Dec 1, 2019
Owen GaffneyinEdmund Hillary FellowshipWe knewThis is speculative fiction. What if the United States fails to treat the climate emergency as an emergency through successive elections…Oct 16, 2019Oct 16, 2019
Owen Gaffney14 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.Apr 15, 2019Apr 15, 2019
