Carlota Pérez
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“Carlota Perez has made several highly original contributions to the understanding of long-term technological transformations and the way in which such changes interact with wider economic, social and political changes”
“As regards the relationship between technology, the economy and society, Carlota Perez is one of the world’s most innovative researchers“
On The Board
1. Talks
Shaping Technological Revolutions in Turbulent Times: Lessons from History.” Talk in China’s Luohan Academy Frontier Dialogue. 9 December 2025
Link to the whole event: “How Shall We Develop the Technologies to Embrace AI Technology”
WHY POPULISM AND HOW TO OVERCOME IT: A new European way of life and the creation of dynamic demand in the Global South
Online to the Palais des Congrès du Futuroscope (with French subtitles). 29 August 2025
The World is at a crossroads: IT IS TIME FOR UNDERSTANDING INSTITUTIONAL INNOVATION
Chris Freeman as pioneer and the SPRU tradition. SPRU PhD Forum. 20 June 2025
THE WORLD IS AT A TURNING POINT: Facing extended conflict or setting up a golden age
Luohan Academy Annual Digital Economy Conference
Online to Beijing. 10 June 2025
Carlota Perez – Alice Amsden 2024 Memorial Lecture
Changing Windows of Opportunity and the Rise of the Rest. APORDE Johannesburg. 03 September 2024
New Conditions For Development: A Triple Opportunity For Latin America And The Caribbean
IDB Strategy workshop. 06 August 2024
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2. Panels
Roundtable Memorial for Professor Richard Nelson
Special panel in the Globelics Conference. November 2025
EU 8th COHESION Forum, March 2022
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Full plenary video: Roberta Metsola (President of EU Parliament), Ursula von der Leyen (President of EU Commission), Joël Giraud (French Minister), Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel Prize in Economics) and Prof. Carlota Pérez.
A crucial moment for shaping a better future
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In the Digital Capitalism Congress organised in Berlin by the FES Competence Centre on the Future of Work I shared a panel with Evgeny Morozov. I held that we are at a crucial moment for shaping a better future, at the confluence of three critical junctures: post-Covid reconstruction, the climate emergency and giving direction to the wayward information revolution. Hence, it’s time to revitalize and modernize governments to engage in five major tasks. Among them is the opportunity to seize the global leadership in a new green ‘European way of life’. You can watch the whole panel in English or in German.
The green economy is not only about renewable energy, it will also require dematerialisation though an intelligent and thrifty use of materials …
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In this panel chaired by Dan Hill and organised by IIPP UCL, Saskia Sassen, Tanushri Shukra and I give initial presentations and discuss the issue. Watch my presentation: Materials sustainability and the need for wide-ranging political support.
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Panel for the EU Research and Innovation DG on “An all-inclusive recovery for a stronger Europe” …
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I was in a panel with Kate Raworth (Doughnut economics), Sandrine Decleve (Co-President of the Club of Rome). Stephanie Kelton (Modern Monetary Theory), Mariana Mazzucato (IIPP and Entrepreneurial State) and Mariya Gabriel (EU Commissioner for Science and Innovation). I argued that to succeed with sustainability we need to marry ICT and green and that the best way to save the economy was to save the planet.
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3. Interviews
A conversation with Carlota Perez: A life of revolutions
Interviewed by Amir Lebdioui (Director TIDE, Oxford University). 6 October, 2025
Steering the technological revolution
Podcast interviewing Daron Acemoglu and Carlota Perez interviewed by Tom Parker and Laura Nurski in the Future of Work series of CEPS (the Centre for European Policy Studies). 2025
On technological revolutions and capitalism
Interview by Erik Cederrwall & Sachin Gandhi for their Luminary Podcast. August 2023
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4. Latest Publications
The green transformation as a new direction for techno-economic development ...
… Lema, Rasmus and Perez, Carlota (2024) The green transformation as a new direction for techno-economic development.
Learning from history: Succeeding in the digital age ...
… 2023. In Oeij, P., Kirov, V., and Pomares, E. editors, Beyond 4.0. The Practical side of Digital Transformation: A Tool book for Practitioners.
Redirecting growth: Inclusive, sustainable and Innovation-led ...
… 2022 Mazzucato, M and Perez, C. “Redirecting growth: Inclusive, sustainable and Innovation-led”.
The importance of education and training policies in supporting technological revolutions: A comparative and historical analysis of UK, US, Germany, and Sweden (1830–1970) ...
… 2022. Focacci, C.N. and Perez, C. in Technology in Society.
A smart green direction for innovation: the answer to unemployment and inequality? ...
… 2022 Perez, C and Murray Leach, T. in Benner, Marklund and Schwaag Serger editors Smart Policies for Societies in Transition, Cheltenham: Elgar (open access).
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5. Latest Articles
What Is AI’s Place in History?
Project Syndicate. 11 March 2024.
The Digital-Green Nexus is a Win-Win for the Planet and the Economy
Perez, C. and Lema, R. (2023). In Diplomatic Courier. Nov. pp. 54-56. 30 November 2023.
A long delayed golden age: or why has the ICT ‘installation period’ lasted so long?
Blog for IIPP/Medium. Three reasons are in the nature of the revolution and three are due to the context: China and decoupled global finance are the main ones. 14 June 2022.
A Message of Hope in Turbulent Times
Blog for IIPP/Medium based on my talk for the EU in the Cohesion Forum: A description of the current moment in the diffusion of the ICT revolution, why it’s precisely the moment to change and what to do for Europe to lead in getting to better times. March 2022.
“It's time for a smart, green, fair and global golden age of the information society”
Article in preparation to participate in the “Great Minds” discussion of the 25th UNCTAD-CSTD meeting, on March 28th. 22 March 2022.
“A series of blogs with Andrés Schafer (@chaferox) about “Smart, green, fair and global growth” looking towards a better post-pandemic world”
Films
A documentary about the financial crises ...
When Bubbles Burst. A Norwegian documentary about the 2008 financial collapse, combining the idea of technological revolutions with the reality of the financial bubbles and crashes that inevitably accompany them. Traveling across the world, several witnesses, victims and economists are interviewed (including me).
A documentary about Schumpeter ...
… with the participation of many neo-Schumpeterian economists, including myself. Schumpeter, the Man Who Discovered Capitalism
Contact
Contact
For Contact – Main Email:
carperez@carlotaperez.org