Carlota Perez

Carlota Perez is a British-Venezuelan scholar specializing in the economics of innovation and technological revolutions. She currently holds honorary professorships at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College London and SPRU at the University of Sussex, and is an adjunct professor at Tallinn University of Technology. She is best known for her influential 2002 book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages, which presents her framework on how technological revolutions unfold through phases of financial frenzy, crash, and eventual golden ages of deployment.