Carlota Pérez

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Carlota Pérez (born September 20, 1939 in Caracas ) is a Venezuelan scientist and expert with a focus on technology and socio-economic development; she is best known for her concept of the techno-economic paradigm shift and her theory of " great surges ", a further development of the Kondratiev cycles .

resume

Pérez, who lives as a consultant in her native Caracas, is an Honorary Research Fellow at the SPRU Center at the University of Sussex and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the United Nations University , Institute of New Technologies, Maastricht . She is currently a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF), Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge . Since autumn 2006 she has been Professor of Technology and Socio-Economic Development at the Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia .

Pérez has held various public service positions in Venezuela, including a. as head of the department for industrial policy in the Ministry of Economic Affairs (1980–1983), and was subsequently a consultant a. a. for INTEVEP, the research division of PDVSA , the national oil company. As an international consultant, she has a. a. worked for OECD , UNCTAD , UNESCO , UNIDO , UNDP and the World Bank , as well as for the governments, development banks etc. of Chile , Peru , Ecuador , Uruguay , Argentina , Colombia , Dominican Republic , Brazil , Canada , Norway and Estonia . Some elements of the EU's Lisbon Strategy are based on their work. In Germany she is a member of the Scientific Board of the AutoUni of Volkswagen AG in Wolfsburg .

theory

Carlota Pérez is a Neo-Schumpeterian and a student of Christopher Freeman , with whom she worked closely since her first research stay in 1983 at the SPRU center at the University of Sussex and later became his third wife. Her articles since the early 1980s have contributed to the current understanding of the relationship between basic innovation, technical and institutional change, and economic development. Her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages , published in 2002, is considered a modern classic of the genre.

literature

  • Carlota Perez: Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages . Edward Elgar, London 2002.
  • Wolfgang Drechsler, Rainer Kattel and Erik S. Reinert (Eds.): Techno-Economic Paradigms: Essays in Honor of Carlota Perez . Anthem, London 2009.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary Chris Freeman

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Pérez, Carlota
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Venezuelan scientist
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Caracas