Paper by Geoff Mulgan: “I summarise the perspectives of different disciplines – economics, psychology, computer science, business studies, organisation studies, political science, history, law, international relations, anthropology, design and complexity. In each case I make short suggestions on what would be useful from each, before turning to what a more synthetic approach might look like, in particular using insights from biology and computation to see organisations as living things and addressing the dynamics of ecosystems of organisations which compete and cooperate.
The paper asks of the people working in academic disciplines: how are you engaging with, and learning from, other disciplines? And how could your knowledge be useful to a world that badly needs to reform its public institutions at every level, from the local to the global?…(More)”.
