⏮️ 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
03.12.2025 22:33 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0It was a pleasure to have been one of the examiners of @faustogernone.bsky.social ‘s PhD dissertation today. Congratulations to Dr Gernone!
20.11.2025 12:15 — 👍 42 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0My pleasure to discuss my research with you!!
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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
08.11.2025 11:44 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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!)
13.10.2025 11:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Rewilding the Internet @robin.berjon.com
Variety warfare by Big Tech @faustogernone.bsky.social
Variety-selection-adaptation framework to the DMA 😇
I love it. One day AI might be powerful enough to even pronounce my surname right 😆
06.10.2025 09:17 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
✍️ 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
27.09.2025 13:05 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0“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
19.09.2025 15:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
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
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-...
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.
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on.ft.com/4kWYNqt public equity stakes would be a fine thing
25.06.2025 07:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The never ending Control Revolution
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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
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🎤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
08.05.2025 16:43 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Great read!!!
30.04.2025 21:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Is 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?
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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
