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Blog Post
June 17, 2022
Ahhh, it’s the most magical time of year, with Christmas carols, and presents, and Love, Actually and It’s a Wonderful Life! That’s right, Christmas! Well, it is in CGD Europe, where our pandemic- delayed Christmas party has been reorganised for today, and frankly, the ambience is much, much more my...
Blog Post
June 10, 2022
The best thing I read this week was Michael Nielsen’s long, thoughtful, erudite criticism of Effective Altruism, the moral philosophy that argues for us to adopt an approach to life that relies on evidence and logic to establish how to achieve the most good for others over time, and to apply that un...
Blog Post
June 09, 2022
At a time when governments seem able to agree on very little, the consensus around the Bank’s need to scale up its engagement on climate and other global public goods is striking. But “scaling up ambition” is vague, and there remains a great deal of work to do to pin down what it means in practice f...