Carlota Perez
@carlotaperez.bsky.social
Prof. of technology & development at IIPP-UCL, SPRU & TalTech. Author 'Technological Revolutions & Financial Capital'. Also in Anthemis UK on role of State
The tragedy of #Venezuela! In 1965 it was among the highest in GDP per capita and in a democracy. After the oil price rise it got even richer. With Chavez and Maduro (calling themselves socialists) it is as poor as Haiti & 1/3 of the population has emigrated!
November 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The tragedy of #Venezuela! In 1965 it was among the highest in GDP per capita and in a democracy. After the oil price rise it got even richer. With Chavez and Maduro (calling themselves socialists) it is as poor as Haiti & 1/3 of the population has emigrated!
Very interesting!!!
Today, we co-hosted the European Open Source Security Forum with @openssf.org
Over the course of 3 panels, 3 presentations, a fireside chat and more, our guest speakers discussed...
🔸 The EU's changing regulatory landscape
🔸 The case for an EU sovereign tech fund
🔸 Open source & quantum security
Over the course of 3 panels, 3 presentations, a fireside chat and more, our guest speakers discussed...
🔸 The EU's changing regulatory landscape
🔸 The case for an EU sovereign tech fund
🔸 Open source & quantum security
November 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Very interesting!!!
Well deserved Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado. It will put the spotlight on the Venezuelan tragedy with its kleptocratic and repressive dictatorship. A ray of hope for the millions of us in the diaspora.
October 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Well deserved Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado. It will put the spotlight on the Venezuelan tragedy with its kleptocratic and repressive dictatorship. A ray of hope for the millions of us in the diaspora.
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A wonderful in depth interview w @carlotaperez.bsky.social about her life, work and what makes a revolution - enjoy!
✍️ Carlota Perez - Life of Revolutions
@amirleb.bsky.social spoke with IIPP Honorary Professor @carlotaperez.bsky.social about her life, career, and intellectual journey for his latest piece in 'Development and Change'.
🔗 Read the full conversation here: buff.ly/E19bHn8
@amirleb.bsky.social spoke with IIPP Honorary Professor @carlotaperez.bsky.social about her life, career, and intellectual journey for his latest piece in 'Development and Change'.
🔗 Read the full conversation here: buff.ly/E19bHn8
October 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
A wonderful in depth interview w @carlotaperez.bsky.social about her life, work and what makes a revolution - enjoy!
Reposted by Carlota Perez
📉 "Brace for a crash before the golden age of #AI"
@johnthornhill.bsky.social's article in the @financialtimes.com draws on IIPP Honorary Professor @carlotaperez.bsky.social's research on technological revolutions and the cycles they tend to follow.
✍️ Read more here: buff.ly/T4bsrKw
@johnthornhill.bsky.social's article in the @financialtimes.com draws on IIPP Honorary Professor @carlotaperez.bsky.social's research on technological revolutions and the cycles they tend to follow.
✍️ Read more here: buff.ly/T4bsrKw
September 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
📉 "Brace for a crash before the golden age of #AI"
@johnthornhill.bsky.social's article in the @financialtimes.com draws on IIPP Honorary Professor @carlotaperez.bsky.social's research on technological revolutions and the cycles they tend to follow.
✍️ Read more here: buff.ly/T4bsrKw
@johnthornhill.bsky.social's article in the @financialtimes.com draws on IIPP Honorary Professor @carlotaperez.bsky.social's research on technological revolutions and the cycles they tend to follow.
✍️ Read more here: buff.ly/T4bsrKw
Reposted by Carlota Perez
Tomorrow I’ll be on @thetimes.com Radio discussing the state of the UK economy – and how underinvestment blocks the path to sustainable growth.
Listen here tomorrow @ 13:15 BST ➡️ www.thetimes.com/radio
Read our mission-oriented industrial strategy report ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
Listen here tomorrow @ 13:15 BST ➡️ www.thetimes.com/radio
Read our mission-oriented industrial strategy report ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
September 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Tomorrow I’ll be on @thetimes.com Radio discussing the state of the UK economy – and how underinvestment blocks the path to sustainable growth.
Listen here tomorrow @ 13:15 BST ➡️ www.thetimes.com/radio
Read our mission-oriented industrial strategy report ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
Listen here tomorrow @ 13:15 BST ➡️ www.thetimes.com/radio
Read our mission-oriented industrial strategy report ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
@pkrugman.bsky.social discussed in Substack Charlie Kirk’s success in attracting young men to MAGA by claiming back the 20th century roles of men and women in the workplace and in life. Only raising the salaries in 21st century services will provide satisfactory jobs for all.
September 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
@pkrugman.bsky.social discussed in Substack Charlie Kirk’s success in attracting young men to MAGA by claiming back the 20th century roles of men and women in the workplace and in life. Only raising the salaries in 21st century services will provide satisfactory jobs for all.
In this talk for Futuroscope 2025 (with French subtitles) I say that populism happens midway along each technological revolution. The way out are policies creating new dynamic demand. Last time it was suburbanisation; this time it's reglobalisation for a North-South win-win game. urls.fr/xo9QKg
Carlota PEREZ au Forum du Futuroscope 2025 (4/15)
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September 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
In this talk for Futuroscope 2025 (with French subtitles) I say that populism happens midway along each technological revolution. The way out are policies creating new dynamic demand. Last time it was suburbanisation; this time it's reglobalisation for a North-South win-win game. urls.fr/xo9QKg
Another example of @iipp-ucl.bsky.social and @mazzucatom.bsky.social
putting adademia at the service of social progress and intelligent policies... hands on!
putting adademia at the service of social progress and intelligent policies... hands on!
School meals are not just a welfare policy - they can be at the centre of a strategic industrial strategy, if done right.
Our new report “A Mission Oriented Approach to School Meals” shows how ambitious school meal policy can drive innovation and equity across food systems, health, jobs & climate.
Our new report “A Mission Oriented Approach to School Meals” shows how ambitious school meal policy can drive innovation and equity across food systems, health, jobs & climate.
A Mission-Oriented Approach to School Meals
Authored by Mariana Mazzucato and Sarah Doyle
www.ucl.ac.uk
September 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Another example of @iipp-ucl.bsky.social and @mazzucatom.bsky.social
putting adademia at the service of social progress and intelligent policies... hands on!
putting adademia at the service of social progress and intelligent policies... hands on!
The difference is enormous between ivory tower academic institutions and IIPP, which produces scientific outputs and also connects with real world problems and works with real world leaders. These are times for policy and institutional innovation, so we need more academy-government links like this.
One year on from Scotland's Industrial Strategy launch, we're hosting a workshop tomorrow with Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes and the Scottish Government. Building on our new report, we'll discuss how to move from ambitious vision to transformative implementation.
www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
September 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The difference is enormous between ivory tower academic institutions and IIPP, which produces scientific outputs and also connects with real world problems and works with real world leaders. These are times for policy and institutional innovation, so we need more academy-government links like this.
Good point by @rainerkattel.bsky.social. He would agree that
not just the innovation agencies but the whole bureaucratic edifice needs modernisation. In fact, the necessary return of the State is not in Trump's tariff-mad mode, but in a creative way, providing directionality and missions.
not just the innovation agencies but the whole bureaucratic edifice needs modernisation. In fact, the necessary return of the State is not in Trump's tariff-mad mode, but in a creative way, providing directionality and missions.
Europe’s innovation agencies are stuck between rigid rules at the top and scattered experiments at the bottom. If they can’t become mission architects, we’ll fail on climate, digital sovereignty & even defence R&D.
More in my new Social Europe piece 👉 www.socialeurope.eu/europes-inno...
More in my new Social Europe piece 👉 www.socialeurope.eu/europes-inno...
Europe's Innovation Agencies Need Radical Reform To Meet Today's Grand Challenges
Innovation agencies in the EU are no longer fit for purpose. A major overhaul of both the concept of innovation and of institutional structures is urgent.
www.socialeurope.eu
September 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Good point by @rainerkattel.bsky.social. He would agree that
not just the innovation agencies but the whole bureaucratic edifice needs modernisation. In fact, the necessary return of the State is not in Trump's tariff-mad mode, but in a creative way, providing directionality and missions.
not just the innovation agencies but the whole bureaucratic edifice needs modernisation. In fact, the necessary return of the State is not in Trump's tariff-mad mode, but in a creative way, providing directionality and missions.
@johnthornhill.bsky.social 's article interviewing me about a possible AI bubble collapse was widely read and commented and referred to in dozens of newspapers around the world. I guess financial bubbles spur information bubbles. Shame my next book is not at the publisher's yet!
The most read column in the @financialtimes.com over the past month was my piece on the coming AI crash channeling the thoughts of @carlotaperez.bsky.social
As always, there are some great - and varied - comments from FT readers 👀 😵💫
on.ft.com/45SXanu
As always, there are some great - and varied - comments from FT readers 👀 😵💫
on.ft.com/45SXanu
Brace for a crash before the golden age of AI
[FREE TO READ] History teaches that tech revolutions follow a predictable cycle of installation followed by creative destruction
on.ft.com
September 1, 2025 at 7:04 AM
@johnthornhill.bsky.social 's article interviewing me about a possible AI bubble collapse was widely read and commented and referred to in dozens of newspapers around the world. I guess financial bubbles spur information bubbles. Shame my next book is not at the publisher's yet!
If we want Bluesky to be a real alternative, we must be patient and persevere. This experience of being the pioneers must have been the same with Twitter in the early years. Most of us joined when it already had millions of people participating. The more active we are, the quicker Bluesky will grow.
August 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
If we want Bluesky to be a real alternative, we must be patient and persevere. This experience of being the pioneers must have been the same with Twitter in the early years. Most of us joined when it already had millions of people participating. The more active we are, the quicker Bluesky will grow.
Great idea!
A lot of people are pointing out that copyright rules are breaking under the weight of generative AI, which exploits creative labour at scale. The solution is not to erect digital walls, but to treat collective knowledge as a public good and fund it collectively.
AI Should Help Fund Creative Labor
Mariana Mazzucato & Fausto Gernone show how today’s innovation economy exploits the very people it relies on and propose a fairer system.
www.project-syndicate.org
August 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Great idea!
After getting various answers from ChatGPT that obviously were based on Wikipedia, I asked it if Open AI supported Wikimedia. It found Apple, Google.org, plus individual donors like Omidyar Network did, but not OpenAI. So I asked it to prepare a call for social media. This is it. Let's use it:
August 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
After getting various answers from ChatGPT that obviously were based on Wikipedia, I asked it if Open AI supported Wikimedia. It found Apple, Google.org, plus individual donors like Omidyar Network did, but not OpenAI. So I asked it to prepare a call for social media. This is it. Let's use it:
@johnthornhill.bsky.social published an article in the Financial Times wrote about a potential crash of the AI investment hype referring to my work on technological revolutions, financial bubbles and golden ages.
"Brace for a crash before the golden age of AI" on.ft.com/45thsoG
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"Brace for a crash before the golden age of AI" on.ft.com/45thsoG
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Brace for a crash before the golden age of AI
[FREE TO READ] History teaches that tech revolutions follow a predictable cycle of installation followed by creative destruction
on.ft.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
@johnthornhill.bsky.social published an article in the Financial Times wrote about a potential crash of the AI investment hype referring to my work on technological revolutions, financial bubbles and golden ages.
"Brace for a crash before the golden age of AI" on.ft.com/45thsoG
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"Brace for a crash before the golden age of AI" on.ft.com/45thsoG
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Uruguay recently approved providing a "painless and peaceful death, respecting the dignity of patients with an incurable or painful illness. Congratulations! How long will it still take for #euthanasia to become a human right across the world? Not soon, if Big Pharma can stop it.
August 21, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Uruguay recently approved providing a "painless and peaceful death, respecting the dignity of patients with an incurable or painful illness. Congratulations! How long will it still take for #euthanasia to become a human right across the world? Not soon, if Big Pharma can stop it.
Indeed, Trump is wrong when thinking that the old factory jobs are what will "make America great again" but it's not because he's old; many old people like me understand technological revolutions and social progress.
Trump's an old man still stuck in the world of car & steel manufacturing. His vision of success is that America will once again be host to millions of blue-collar factory jobs which no longer even exist in China, where they have been automated away amerex.substack.com/p/trump-is-l...
Trump is losing his trade war with China - badly, pt. 2
Why can't the U.S. outcompete China?
amerex.substack.com
July 25, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Indeed, Trump is wrong when thinking that the old factory jobs are what will "make America great again" but it's not because he's old; many old people like me understand technological revolutions and social progress.
The holocaust survivors would have found it impossible to believe that some of their descendants would inflict a similar genocidal treatment on another people
July 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
The holocaust survivors would have found it impossible to believe that some of their descendants would inflict a similar genocidal treatment on another people
I just read a 2005 paper defending universal basic income by Philippe van Parijs. It's the best I've ever read and I really think #UBI is a key part of the 21st century welfare state: AI-distributed, dignity for all and the rich give it back in taxes:
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July 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I just read a 2005 paper defending universal basic income by Philippe van Parijs. It's the best I've ever read and I really think #UBI is a key part of the 21st century welfare state: AI-distributed, dignity for all and the rich give it back in taxes:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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I'll be leading a session with Steve Denning on how autonomous teams, guided by Agile principles, can drive innovation and create customer value.
July 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I'll be leading a session with Steve Denning on how autonomous teams, guided by Agile principles, can drive innovation and create customer value.
Challenging podcast by @ceps.eu with @dacemoglumit.bsky.social going from whether AI is a revolution or part of AI to how the necessary institutional innovations are best made
🎧 New episode alert! 🎧
@dacemoglumit.bsky.social & @carlotaperez.bsky.social join us to rethink AI, innovation & inequality.
💡 The big question: Should organisational design be treated as a public policy concern?
Listen on:
🎧 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲: bit.ly/44HL3sK
🎧 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐬: bit.ly/3GGklJ5
@dacemoglumit.bsky.social & @carlotaperez.bsky.social join us to rethink AI, innovation & inequality.
💡 The big question: Should organisational design be treated as a public policy concern?
Listen on:
🎧 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲: bit.ly/44HL3sK
🎧 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐬: bit.ly/3GGklJ5
July 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Challenging podcast by @ceps.eu with @dacemoglumit.bsky.social going from whether AI is a revolution or part of AI to how the necessary institutional innovations are best made
This is one of the incredible facts of the tragedy of #Venezuela . While the ruling kleptocrats live in luxury, public sector workers earn, in a MONTH, below the DAILY poverty level wage of the UN (see #FT: www.ft.com/content/5ccb...).
June 22, 2025 at 8:34 AM
This is one of the incredible facts of the tragedy of #Venezuela . While the ruling kleptocrats live in luxury, public sector workers earn, in a MONTH, below the DAILY poverty level wage of the UN (see #FT: www.ft.com/content/5ccb...).
Finally! Britain's parliament approved the #AssistedDyingBill. It still has to go to the Lords. It is limited to those who have only 6 months to live (probably 3 or 4 after doctors and a panel approve). It might be decades before it's a proper human right. Just like abortion, step by step.
June 21, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Finally! Britain's parliament approved the #AssistedDyingBill. It still has to go to the Lords. It is limited to those who have only 6 months to live (probably 3 or 4 after doctors and a panel approve). It might be decades before it's a proper human right. Just like abortion, step by step.