Worth reading indeed. Zadie Smith is a hard truth teller. Just like Hannah Arendt, she brings you to the depth of the issue and forces you to rethink and rethink and try to really understand

governments face a hefty bill to deal with climate change (but the cost of inaction will be much higher in the long run) on.ft.com/4blgrzD

FACING THE SIZE OF THE #GREENTRANSITION TASK! In the @ft, Attracta Mooney provides this graph comparing current climate funding with fossil fuel subsidies, military cost, and one year of Covid, with real #ClimateAction finance needs. Shocking and frightening!

Already 5 years ago, my 2 friends Reda Cherif & Fuad Hasanov from the IMF wrote a paper with the Harry Potter-inspired title: “The Return of the Policy That Shall Not Be Named: Principles of Industrial Policy”. Now, let's ensure that what's returning is *good* industrial policy.…

Free to read at the link: AI does not represent a technological revolution. Rather, it is part of the 50-year-old ICT revolution, which is mature enough by now that we should know how to regulate and direct it, UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose's Carlota Perez argues. bit.ly/3xZFsl4

Embarrassing & astonishing! How could Nesta,Reform & IPPR risk their prestige not citing the author that everyone knows initiated the mission economy idea? But great that everybody wants mission-led government. Big success for Mariana Mazzucato

.Carlota Perez

So many wonderful women inspiring our every day UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. Just to name some on #WomensDay : Carlota Perez Stephanie Kelton Jayati Ghosh Margrethe Vestager @RowanEConway Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Francesca Bria Hilary Cottam Carole Cadwalladr Shoshana Zuboff Heather Boushey Anne-Marie Slaughter🇺🇦 @lorihoulihan13 Kate Raworth

Powerful ideas coming from Riad Meddeb at the UNDP about how to go about the #green and #justtransition .
Acting at both the supply and demand ends and involving all agents and everybody. That's how you act in emergencies.

Interesting innovative initiative in Norway. A law requiring the registration of high-energy-consuming data centres to only allow those that benefit society and the economy.

Great letter urging G20 world leaders to face what is probably the most important task of our time: making the global financial system be fit for purpose

Thank you Dani Rodrik & Rohan Sandhu for inviting me to give the evening lecture @kennedy_school Reimagining the Economy, Harvard Kennedy School conference on “What do global experiences in industrial policy teach us?' How to move beyond OLD industrial policy (top-down, picking winners) to design NEW industrial…

No matter how much and how often I say that neither #bitcoin nor #blockchain can be explained with my theory, the proponents won't pay attention. A revolution is a set of inter-related cost reduction, productivity enhancing techs acting across all sectors.

Publiqué un artículo sobre las oportunidades en recursos naturales en este excelente libro, editado por Luis A. Pacheco, (ex-dirigente y experto petrolero de los que botó Chavez) a la memoria de Ramón Espinasa, un ser maravilloso que también se tuvo que ir.

A pioneer in the field of innovation studies, Carlota Perez has shaped our collective understanding of the impact of technical revolutions on socio-economic development. Naturally, my book is heavily influenced by her nuanced perspectives on the green technological revolution.…

To promote development effectively, we need policy innovation; not only innovation policy. And for social sustainability, we need bottom-up innovation. Some ideas in my keynote to a South-African conference in February: youtube.com/watch?v=GPhGj5…

BREAKING 🇭🇳 85 leading economists “commend” Honduras’ decision to quit international court that places corporate profit over sustainable development — incl. Jayati Ghosh, Jeff Sachs, JG Palma, Yanis Varoufakis, Ann Pettifor, and Ha-Joon Chang. progressive.international/wire/2024-03-1…

The Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) scheme threatens sustainable development as it allows corporations to sue governmeents outside of national legal systems over sustainability measures that affect their profits. Oil companies already took advantage by claiming $18bn…

If AI’s development unfolds in a system where financial markets remain unregulated and decoupled from the real economy, it is unlikely to move us in a more environmentally, socially, or politically sustainable direction Carlota Perez Project Syndicate prosyn.org/nRWAjDA

Rethinking and reshaping health care in our societies is an urgent task. Diagnoses and change proposals like Dr. Knox's are crucial to initiate the process.