10 Facts About Carlota Perez

Carlota Perez is a British-Venezuelan scholar specialized in technology and socio-economic development.

Carlota Perez regularly gives visiting lectures at other universities around the world.

Carlota Perez's career began at the Central University of Venezuela where she studied the structural causes of the energy crisis in the mid-1970s and then in the civil service at the Institute of Foreign Trade in relation to the technology aspects of the North-South Dialogue.

Carlota Perez has been consultant to most of the major public and private companies in Venezuela, in particular to INTEVEP, the Research and Development affiliate of PDVSA, the national petroleum company.

Carlota Perez is a neo-Schumpeterian and Christopher Freeman was her mentor and husband, with whom she closely collaborated.

Since the 2010s Carlota Perez has been studying the historical role of the state in previous revolutions bringing about such golden ages as the Victorian boom, the Belle Epoque and the Post War prosperity.

Carlota Perez has identified the importance of giving directionality to the technological potential installed in the early decades of each revolution and of the role of changing lifestyles in creating new employment.

Carlota Perez now proposes that the direction should be smart, green, fair and global growth to unleash a global sustainable golden age of the information revolution.

In 2000 Carlota Perez co-founded The Other Canon, a center and network for heterodox economics research, with - amongst others - main founder and executive chairman Erik Reinert.

Carlota Perez defines technological revolution as a powerful and highly visible cluster of new and dynamic technologies, products, and industries capable of bringing about an upheaval in the whole fabric of the economy and propelling a long-term upsurge of development.