Molly Webb
Former Demos researcher
Molly Webb worked as a Demos researcher on science, technology and innovation from January 2005 - August 2007.
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- Democracy in the wilderness? Hyde Park is beautiful in the way of uniformly green, well-spaced trees and sculpted paths. Until you come to the bits that are slightly over-fowled or the construction areas and then you realise that wilderness might be more beautiful.The most exciting things are happening outside of the people who want to "control" and "invent" global institutions. They are happening in the space where individual practices and behaviour, language and cultural norms are changing, and amongst people who think... from : mollywebb 11th February 2005
- Korean wave culture craze Che Jiu is Japanese, but was raised in Korea by a Korean mobster after he killed her father in a terrorist attack. Her love interest is a Korean man who was raised in Japan (who somehow is connected to the whole gangster episode, but I couldn't figure out exactly how.) The drama takes place in Japan today. Nuclear data is stolen. Che Jiu is a computer programmer. She's just found out her father isn't her father. You get the idea. I spent a long lunch with former colleagues yesterday, one of... from : mollywebb 22nd March 2006
- YIMBY (yes in my back yard) Yes, I'll take a power plant in my back yard, but certainly not a nuclear one. How?s that? Let's review...Phase I - My economic textbook defined utilities as a 'natural monopoly' - I'm sure you remember the lesson. One producer would be most efficient and therefore ensure the lowest prices. (That textbook also assumed that people make 'rational' choices based on perfect information.) Phase II - Governments usher in an era of privatisation, because actually it is competing producers who ensure... from : mollywebb 18th May 2006
- We've got global challenges - can Europe deal? An impressive list of speakers joined the LSE event The Global Age: Europe, India, China last night where Tony Giddens was launching two books, both on the challenges to (and strengths of) the European social model. Europe's welfare states are in need of reform, but the European approach of 'social investment' is the only way forward. The major challenges facing the world today are global - climate change was often mentioned. And though the US, India and China are important powers, it is... from : mollywebb 10th October 2006
- Solutions after Stern Since the Brundtland report, now coming up on its 20th anniversary, we’ve had a international framework for sustainable development: environmental problems needed action from both the north and the south. Now we are faced with Stern’s latest economic modeling, and the point is the essentially the same: we’re in this together. Especially developed nations need to invest now to reduce our impact on the planet. We get it. Climate change is the most colossal market failure... from : mollywebb 3rd November 2006