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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 19d

📉 "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

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Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social · 15d

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...

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Carlota Perez @carlotaperez.bsky.social · 20d

@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.

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Carlota Perez @carlotaperez.bsky.social · 21d

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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urls.fr

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Carlota Perez @carlotaperez.bsky.social · 22d

Another example of @iipp-ucl.bsky.social and @mazzucatom.bsky.social‬
putting adademia at the service of social progress and intelligent policies... hands on!

Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social · 23d

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.

A Mission-Oriented Approach to School Meals

Authored by Mariana Mazzucato and Sarah Doyle

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Carlota Perez @carlotaperez.bsky.social · Sep 7

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.

Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social · Sep 7

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...

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Carlota Perez @carlotaperez.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thanks for valuing my work, Bryan. Theories do not belong to the author, but I hate to tell you that I don't think we're in deployment, but stuck in a financialised turning point, where resentment about creative destruction has given rise to populists. See: carlotaperez.org/wp-content/d...

carlotaperez.org

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Carlota Perez @carlotaperez.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thanks! I'll let you know, but in the meantime, there's a lot in my website: www.carlotaperez.org

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Carlota Perez @carlotaperez.bsky.social · Sep 2

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.

Rainer Kattel @rainerkattel.bsky.social · Sep 2

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...

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

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Carlota Perez @carlotaperez.bsky.social · Sep 1

Indeed!

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Carlota Perez @carlotaperez.bsky.social · Sep 1

@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!

John Thornhill @johnthornhill.bsky.social · Aug 31

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

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

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Carlota Perez @carlotaperez.bsky.social · Aug 26

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.

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Carlota Perez @carlotaperez.bsky.social · Aug 26

Great idea!

Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social · Aug 26

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

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Carlota Perez @carlotaperez.bsky.social · Aug 23

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:

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Carlota Perez @carlotaperez.bsky.social · Aug 22

‪@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

[FREE TO READ] History teaches that tech revolutions follow a predictable cycle of installation followed by creative destruction

on.ft.com

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Carlota Perez @carlotaperez.bsky.social · Aug 22

Sorry. I just learned that it was only the House of Deputees that approved the euthanasia law. It now has to go to the Senate. Let's hope they confirm the unique and amazing democratic nature of Uruguay.

Carlota Perez @carlotaperez.bsky.social · Aug 21

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.

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Carlota Perez @carlotaperez.bsky.social · Aug 21

We need to build Bluesky, so it becomes like Twitter used to be. But it takes time and patience and determination.

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Carlota Perez @carlotaperez.bsky.social · Jul 25

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.

Andy Langenkamp @andylangenkamp.bsky.social · Jul 25

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

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Carlota Perez @carlotaperez.bsky.social · Jul 25

The holocaust survivors would have found it impossible to believe that some of their descendants would inflict a similar genocidal treatment on another people

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Carlota Perez @carlotaperez.bsky.social · Jul 24

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/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

journals.sagepub.com

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Rita McGrath @rgmcgrath.bsky.social · Jul 16

I'll be leading a session with Steve Denning on how autonomous teams, guided by Agile principles, can drive innovation and create customer value.

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Carlota Perez @carlotaperez.bsky.social · Jul 11

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

CEPS @ceps.eu · Jul 11

🎧 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

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Carlota Perez @carlotaperez.bsky.social · Jun 22

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...).

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Carlota Perez @carlotaperez.bsky.social · Jun 21

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.