Geoff Mulgan

Geoff Mulgan is director of the Young Foundation.

Britain takes the biscuit

Gordon Brown and Geoff Mulgan, 25 October 1990

Three years ago British ministers joined magazines like the Economist in proudly announcing that Britain was taking over from Germany as Western Europe’s miracle economy. Ours were dynamic growth industries, thriving in a newly competitive environment. Theirs were stuck in a sclerotic corporatism.

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