#Peace as an Economic Strategy
"Historically, wars have driven extraordinary innovation, generating everything from the radar to the internet. A peace mission would feature the same level of ambition, but directed toward conflict prevention rather than conflict readiness. It would mobilize investments in infrastructure and programs to address the root causes of instability: food insecurity, water scarcity, and climate displacement."
I suppose the irony shouldn't be lost on us that what is commonly called #generativeAI is, e.g. in the form of currently popular proprietary LLMs, a technology that is *not generating* value but, instead, extracting value from non-/low-paid workers, only to sell it back to us as something invaluable. How about calling it #exploitativeAI rather?
Think about that before you start employing one of those popular, closed LLMs!
(A thought whilst re-reading "The Value of Everything" by #Mazzucato )
The Big Con:
How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies. Mazzucato, Mariana; Collington, Rose, eds. (2023).
https://marianamazzucato.com/books/the-big-con
#book #Mazzucato #big4 #ConsultingIndustry #State #capacity #tax #outsource #governance #accountability #PublicService #KnowHow #knowledge #dependency
Australia and the Big 4
How the big four accounting firms infiltrated governments, earning more than $10b over a decade while taxpayers are in the dark
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-17/pwc-ey-kpmg-deloitte-government-10-billion/102602370
Butler to the World:
How Britain Became the Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals, Oliver Bullough. 2022
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250281920/butlertotheworld
Tracking how the super rich are changing the world for the rest of us, Oliver Bullough.
https://www.codastory.com/newsletters/oligarchs/
#Britain #UpperClass #crime #AntisocialBehaviour #Tycoons #TaxDodgers #Kleptocrats #Criminals
#Klimawandel, #Inflation und #Ukraine-#Krieg sowie Umwälzungen wie die #Digitalisierung zeigen, der #Staat hat auch in #Zukunft eine wichtige Rolle. #Ecolomist mit Blick auf Mariana #Mazzucato
https://awblog.at/oeffentlicher-sektor-der-ausgehungerte-staat/
..Noch absurder wird es, wenn Regierungen beginnen, ihre eigene politische #Strategieentwicklung – den politischen Prozess der Entwicklung von #Strategien – an externe #Beraterfirmen auszulagern...
#Schulden #Sparen #Fiskalpolitik #Austerität #kosten #Infrastruktur #Transformation
Ein „schlanker Staat" war das ideologische Mantra der letzten Jahrzehnte. Doch Klimawandel, Inflation und Ukraine-Krieg sowie Umwälzungen wie die Digitalisierung zeigen, dass dem Staat auch in Zukunft eine wichigte Rolle zukommt. Eine Analyse von Michael Soder.
Mariana Mazzucato (PhD) is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL), where she is Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose (IIPP). She received her BA from Tufts University and her MA and PhD from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. Her previous posts include the RM Phillips Professorial Chair at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at Sussex University. She is a selected fellow of the UK's Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and of the Italian National Science Academy (Lincei). She is winner of international prizes including the Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana in 2021, Italy's highest civilian honour, the 2020 John von Neumann Award, the 2019 All European Academies Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values, and the 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. She was named as one of the '3 most important thinkers about innovation' by The New Republic, one of the 50 most creative people in business in 2020 by Fast Company, and one of the 25 leaders shaping the future of capitalism by WIRED. She is the author of three highly-acclaimed books: The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths (2013) which investigates the critical role the state plays in driving growth; The Value of Everything: making and taking in the global economy (2018) which looks at how value creation needs to be rewarded over value extraction; and the newly released Mission Economy: a moonshot guide to changing capitalism (2021).
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