@iipp-ucl.bsky.social
Changing how the state is imagined, practised, and evaluated to tackle societal challenges. Director: @mazzucatom.bsky.social, Deputy Directors: @rainerkattel.bsky.social & @eaves.ca
💭 The authors reflect on their journey of writing the book, coming together to collaborate and highlight alternative economic frameworks and methodologies outside of Eurocentric economic paradigms and rethinking global systems through a decolonising economics lens.
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🎤 We kick off today's event with a brief summary of the book and an introduction to the authors and today's panellists:
- @cacrisalves.bsky.social, IIPP Associate Professor
- @surbhikesar.bsky.social, @soasuni.bsky.social Senior Lecturer
- @ingridhk.bsky.social, Kings College Senior Lecturer
📖 @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social, & @ingridhk.bsky.social's new book seeks to expose the Eurocentrism embedded in the economics discipline and show how Eurocentric foundations shape how economists study the world today.
Buy the book: buff.ly/Ria540g
📍Starting in 15 minutes!
Join us for the launch of the new book 'Decolonising Economics', by IIPP Professor
@cacrisalves.bsky.social, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social and @ingridhk.bsky.social.
📺 Join us online if you can't join in person: buff.ly/J9LqdU6
✍️ "We must confront the ways in which governance infrastructures replicate colonial logics."
Catch up on our recent @IIPP_UCL #RethinkingTheState Forum panel on decolonising public administration, chaired by PhD Candidate Nai Lee Kalema.
🔗 Read our recap & watch the recording here: buff.ly/OsSiFtm
📍Happening today - Decolonising Economics
Join us for the launch of the new book 'Decolonising Economics', by IIPP Professor @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social and @ingridhk.bsky.social.
🔗 Learn more and register here: buff.ly/c3e34Sn
🌎 A Global New Economy Movement for a World in Transformation
IIPP's Strategic Economics Alliance ( @iipp-sea.bsky.social) hosted a series of powerful workshops at the 2025 IIPP Forum, discussing key challenges and opportunities for a Global New Economy movement.
➡️ Learn more here: buff.ly/dcNQUzj
📣 We’re hiring - Join the team!
Join IIPP as a Temporary Executive Assistant and support Professor @mazzucatom.bsky.social across her global policy and academic work.
📍London (Hybrid) | ⏳ Until 30 November 2025 |❗️Applications close 12 October
🔗 Apply here: buff.ly/6LPNfub
📍Happening tomorrow - Decolonising Economics
Join us for the launch of the new book 'Decolonising Economics', by IIPP Professor @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social and @ingridhk.bsky.social.
🔗 Learn more and register here: buff.ly/c3e34Sn
📈 Digital Public Infrastructure (#DPI) can maximise public value creation but must be properly created, governed, and regulated.
🔗 Read the paper by IIPP's @mazzucatom.bsky.social, @eaves.ca, and Beatriz Vasconcellos on this discussion here: buff.ly/GlUyzRi
🌍 The world faces an unprecedented water crisis
IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social highlights the historic opportunity for South Africa, as it assumes the G20 presidency, to champion a new economics of water, valuing the hydrological cycle as a global common good.
🔗 Read more: buff.ly/ed5EgbS
🏠 A foundation for future housing strategy
'Taking Stock', a paper led by IIPP's @stefanhorn.bsky.social & @bethstratford.bsky.social, outlines the foundational analysis and key frameworks of the Homes that Don’t Cost the Earth (#HDCE) project.
✍️ Read the paper here: buff.ly/y1titRJ
📚 Starting the new academic year
We were pleased to welcome the latest IIPP #MPA cohort last week, and wish them all the best as classes and seminars kicked off this week.
🔗 Learn more about the MPA programme here: buff.ly/WrRbKUN
🇪🇺 “Those who control digital infrastructure control the conditions of possibility for democracy itself.”
IIPP Honorary Professor @francescabria.bsky.social writes about the need for Europe to reclaim its digital sovereignty in her latest article for @noemamag.com.
✍️ Read more here: buff.ly/SzWevBN
📣 Leading economists call for the protection of Public Interest Media
IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social and Prof. @francescabria.bsky.social joined the call by leading economists to protect public interest media for economic prosperity and human progress.
🔗 Learn more here: buff.ly/E8wXvko
📣 We’re hiring - Join the team!
Join IIPP as a Temporary Executive Assistant and support Professor @mazzucatom.bsky.social across her global policy and academic work.
📍London (Hybrid) | ⏳ Until 30 November 2025 |❗️Applications close 12 October
🔗 Apply here: buff.ly/6LPNfub
🎤 Directing Economic Growth: A Common Good Approach
On October 6, IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social will deliver @christianaiduk.bsky.social’s Annual Lecture, exploring how a new economics of the common good can aid governments in addressing global issues.
🔗 Learn more here: buff.ly/Smnx1YI
✍️ 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
🎤As today's event concludes, we now open the floor to questions from the audience. Thank you for joining us today!
🔗Learn more about the Public Sector Capabilities Index here, including past publications, media, and the latest report launched today: buff.ly/S5ndykR
🎤 We now welcome Anaclaudia Rossbach, Claudio Castro & Katie MacKenzie (@nycfood.bsky.social) into the conversation.
Together, the panel discusses:
1️⃣ What cities need to build capabilities
2️⃣ How to strengthen city capabilities
3️⃣ and how to embed capability-building as a global norm.
IIPP Co-Deputy Director @rainerkattel.bsky.social presents an overview of the new report, highlighting the key findings and outlining next steps and scalability.
🔗 Read the new report here: buff.ly/2kqNQXy
🎤 IIPP Director and Principal Investigator @mazzucatom.bsky.social
& @bloombergdotorg.bsky.social
Lead on the Government Innovation Programme, James Anderson reflects on the journey so far, and what the Public Sector Capabilities Index can deliver for cities' growth & transformation.
🤝 This report has been the result of 2 years of collaboration between IIPP and @bloombergdotorg.bsky.social.
IIPP Co-Deputy Director @rainerkattel.bsky.social kicks off today's event, marking a celebration of the work we have achieved so far, and looking ahead at the next phase of this project.
📍Starting in 15 minutes!
Join us for the launch of our new report, featuring IIPP Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social and @rainerkattel.bsky.social in conversation with James Anderson, Anaclaudia Rossbach, Claudio Castro, & @nycfood.bsky.social.
📺 Join us online here: buff.ly/fsCKXQ0
“Whoever controls AI infrastructure—compute, models, data, & cloud—will shape the economic & political order of the 21st century. The U.S. & China understand this & are mobilizing every instrument of statecraft to secure supremacy. Europe must understand it too.”
— @francescabria.bsky.social
#ai
💭 Where do capabilities end and dynamic capabilities begin?
Our recent blog by IIPP Senior Research Fellow Ruth Puttick and PhD Candidate Fernando Monge explains how dynamic capabilities differ from operational capabilities, and why the distinction is important.
✍️ Read more here: buff.ly/RiHCfSR
✍️ How Do Cities Adapt to Tackle Grand Challenges?
Catch up on our 2025 IIPP #RethinkingTheState Forum panel with
@cityofsound.bsky.social in conversation with @mazzucatom.bsky.social, James Anderson, Ruth Puttick & Bridgette Morris
📷 Read our recap & watch the recording here: buff.ly/xDUYFxv
📍Happening tomorrow - From Insight to Action
Join us for this event launching our new report, featuring IIPP Profs @mazzucatom.bsky.social & @rainerkattel.bsky.social in conversation with James Anderson, Anacláudia Rossbach, Claudio Castro, & @nycfood.bsky.social.
🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/QWael2j
✍️ Can Design Transform Governance?
IIPP Professor @rainerkattel.bsky.social, co-author of the recently published Public Design Evidence Review (PDER), reflects on the role of design in creating better public policies and services.
🔗 Read his new blog post here: buff.ly/TRkVmW5
🏙️ Governing Urban Data for the Public Interest
Revisit our #IIPPInConversation panel with @francescabria.bsky.social, @rainerkattel.bsky.social, Theo Blackwell ( @ldncdo.bsky.social), and @henriverdier.bsky.social on how cities can use data for the public interest.
📺 Watch here: buff.ly/HnR0B4Y
