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Carlota was born in Venezuela in 1939. Her first career there was as a civil servant specialized in energy and innovation policy[34]. Later in life, she switched to academia, settling in the UK where she started to focus on the relationship between technological change and financial markets. Almost by coincidence, her only book to date, Technologic

Carlota Perez, a leading economist at Cambridge University and an expert in technoeconomic paradigm shifts. Perez posits that every seventy years, a disruptive technology emerges that alters the foundations of the economy and the norms by which society constructs itself—our homes, our workplaces, our education system, the way we govern, how we spen

Ervin Laszlo in The Chaos Point.

It has since triggered a positive feedback loop. A significant part of the venture capital community has adopted Carlota’s system as the bedrock of their investment theses. In turn, investors echoing Carlota’s ideas in their day-to-day practices have had the effect of getting her even more interested in technology. As of now, Carlota has become one

might provide material decisive

As explained by Carlota Perez, each techno-economic paradigm involves a new understanding of the current means of production and consumption. In turn, it imposes a new way of life and thus calls for new institutions. Only with a new “socio-institutional framework”[72] in line with the new age can society enter a period marked by the redistribution