My personal Substack

Ancient history and today's politics through the lens of Cliodynamics ("history as science"). Recent books: End Times (2023), The Great Holocene Transformation (2025).

Reflections on the theory and practice of an economy that delivers for people and planet.

Dark Matter Labs team works with partners, clients, and collaborators across the world, researching and developing new institutional support frameworks for collaborative system change.

I write about interesting new developments in AI.

Home to Rachel George's Living Literature Review on Interdisciplinarity.

Why has the world become more gender equal? Why are some societies more gender equal than others?

What academia knows* about innovation