⏮️ Rethinking Economic Power in the Digital Age Catch up on our recent #PhDInConversation event, featuring PhD Graduate @faustogernone.bsky.social in conversation with Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social, @ceciliarikap.bsky.social, & Tommaso Valletti. 📺 Watch the event recording: buff.ly/Om4uszs

Great lecture by @kenohaverkamp.bsky.social on industrial policy & supply chain strategy at @iipp-ucl.bsky.social

It was a pleasure to have been one of the examiners of @faustogernone.bsky.social ‘s PhD dissertation today. Congratulations to Dr Gernone!

Rethinking Economic Power in the Digital Age 🍿🍿🍿 youtu.be/AtZwVjO1TBY?... @faustogernone.bsky.social @ceciliarikap.bsky.social @mazzucatom.bsky.social @tomvalletti.bsky.social - A progressive EconOlympus

Rethinking Economic Power in the Digital Age

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Entering a new stage of corporatocracy on.ft.com/49ri9kB Gates Foundation skews global health agenda after US retreat, study says

🎤 Rethinking Economic Power in the Digital Age Join us for the latest IIPP #PhDInConversation event, featuring PhD Candidate @faustogernone.bsky.social in conversation with Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social, @ceciliarikap.bsky.social, & Tommaso Valletti. 🔗 Register here: buff.ly/qMoft7U

🤖 AI Should Help Fund Creative Labour IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social and PhD Candidate @faustogernone.bsky.social propose a levy on AI firms’ revenues to help fund the arts, promote open access, and maintain human ingenuity & creativity. ✍️ Read their article here: buff.ly/6zoJ7wW

Having had Philippe Aghion as a professor, I admired his quick thinking but was surprised by his refusal to question economics’ reliance on ideas like consumer rationality or general equilibrium (and I did try!)

Rewilding the Internet @robin.berjon.com Variety warfare by Big Tech @faustogernone.bsky.social Variety-selection-adaptation framework to the DMA 😇

Simonetta Vezzoso@wavesblog.eurosky.social · 12mo ago

Experiment: using AI to lower barriers to entry by Wavesblog Readers, hope you don't mind ;-) competitionwave.blogspot.com/2025/10/coor...

✍️ Coordination and Power The latest paper by IIPP PhD Candidate @faustogernone.bsky.social reframes production as an information-processing endeavour. The paper was awarded the Herbert Simon Prize by the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy. 🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/dH5D65U

Sooo excited that my paper Coordination and Power has been awarded the 2025 Herbert Simon Prize by the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE)! 😁 Read it here: buff.ly/G9yCRDh

“Vacuum cleaners to ensure clean houses are praiseworthy and essential in our standard of living. Street cleaners to ensure clean streets are an unfortunate expense. Partly as a result, our houses are generally clean and our streets are generally filthy.” J. K. Galbraith

Great to see our EuroStack initiative making waves! Over the past two weeks alone the project has been discussed in headlining articles by the Financial Times, Wired, Tech Policy and more Proud to have co-authored the report with the brilliant @francescabria.bsky.social and @paultimmers.bsky.social

EuroStack

Building a european alternative for technological sovereignty

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Every time you ask ChatGPT to proofread your email you quietly borrow from the labour of millions. In this sense, cultural production has already become a planetary co-operative. Updating its funding mechanism accordingly is necessary: it is time to socialise AI’s inputs. @faustogernone.bsky.social

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.

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Cultural production has already become a planetary co-operative. Aligning its funding mechanism accordingly is necessary. We can reach that alignment the smart way or the hard way, but reach it we will. Read our proposal. @mazzucatom.bsky.social www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/how-...

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.

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Ha-Joon Chang, writing in the FT, finds that economics courses STILL do not take the planet or the environment into account, rendering them functionally useless. An excerpt follows.

How economics teaching became the Aeroflot of ideas

The discipline is failing students by ignoring the biggest social, political and ecological challenges facing the world today

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Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · last yr.

Alt text: Rethinking Economics, a group of activists that emerged from the post-crash student rebellion, recently took stock of the state of economics taught at UK universities in its curriculum health check. [...]

on.ft.com/4kWYNqt public equity stakes would be a fine thing

Inject equity in green industry not subsidies, EU tells capitals

Competition chief Teresa Ribera says Brussels will allow governments to take stakes in companies

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🤖 How can governments regulate #AI for the common good? IIPP's @mazzucatom.bsky.social and @faustogernone.bsky.social‬ argue that governments must take an active role in AI development by shaping markets and designing systems that serve the common good. ✍️ Read more here: buff.ly/ZvHYNzZ

🤖 How can governments regulate #AI for the common good? IIPP's @mazzucatom.bsky.social and @faustogernone.bsky.social‬ argue that governments must take an active role in AI development by shaping markets and designing systems that serve the common good. ✍️ Read more here: buff.ly/ZvHYNzZ

As digital platforms are increasingly leveraged to shape politics across borders, problems of sovereignty and accountability have become impossible to ignore. The debate has now shifted from from identifying the problem to working out solutions. Great chat yesterday at @iipp-ucl.bsky.social

🎤To answer these pressing questions, IIPP Prof @ceciliarikap.bsky.social welcomes panelists, academics, and scholars: @ibalilebali.bsky.social, Carla Bonina, @mattcole.bsky.social, @paologerbaudo.bsky.social , @faustogernone.bsky.social, Edemilson Paraná, @roserpujadas.bsky.social, and Ana Valdivia

Great read!!!

Todd Davies@todddavi.es · last yr.

Did you notice that Meta has integrated its AI assistant into WhatsApp? 🤖 I did, and think the company risks violating EU competition law by doing so. ⚖️ Blog post in @wolterskluwer.com here: competitionlawblog.kluwercompetitionlaw.com/2025/04/30/d...

Is the copyright controversy surrounding generative AI a step towards the long-run collectivisation of knowledge production, or will it remain a blatant manifestation of extractivism?

The EU risks becoming a technological vassal state. Our hidden gem of the week proposes an open-source pan-European digital infrastructure rooted in democracy. By @francescabria.bsky.social, @paultimmers.bsky.social & @faustogernone.bsky.social at @bertelsmannst.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4h2JsBY

Important @ucl-iipp.bsky.social report by @francescabria.bsky.social and @faustogernone.bsky.social on why Europe must move beyond incrementalism in digital sovereignty. Read more ➡️

New EuroStack Report Launched: A Bold Vision for Europe’s Digital Sovereignty

On 13 February 2025, the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) launches the highly anticipated "EuroStack – A European Alternative for Digital Sovereignty" report, providing a…

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