Fausto Gernone
@faustogernone.bsky.social
Competition economist | PhD @IIPP_UCL | Wikipedia enthusiast
Entering a new stage of corporatocracy
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October 29, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Entering a new stage of corporatocracy
on.ft.com/49ri9kB Gates Foundation skews global health agenda after US retreat, study says
on.ft.com/49ri9kB Gates Foundation skews global health agenda after US retreat, study says
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🎤 Rethinking Economic Power in the Digital Age
Join us for the latest IIPP #PhDInConversation event, featuring PhD Candidate @faustogernone.bsky.social in conversation with Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social, @ceciliarikap.bsky.social, & Tommaso Valletti.
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Join us for the latest IIPP #PhDInConversation event, featuring PhD Candidate @faustogernone.bsky.social in conversation with Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social, @ceciliarikap.bsky.social, & Tommaso Valletti.
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October 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🎤 Rethinking Economic Power in the Digital Age
Join us for the latest IIPP #PhDInConversation event, featuring PhD Candidate @faustogernone.bsky.social in conversation with Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social, @ceciliarikap.bsky.social, & Tommaso Valletti.
🔗 Register here: buff.ly/qMoft7U
Join us for the latest IIPP #PhDInConversation event, featuring PhD Candidate @faustogernone.bsky.social in conversation with Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social, @ceciliarikap.bsky.social, & Tommaso Valletti.
🔗 Register here: buff.ly/qMoft7U
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🤖 AI Should Help Fund Creative Labour
IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social and PhD Candidate @faustogernone.bsky.social propose a levy on AI firms’ revenues to help fund the arts, promote open access, and maintain human ingenuity & creativity.
✍️ Read their article here: buff.ly/6zoJ7wW
IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social and PhD Candidate @faustogernone.bsky.social propose a levy on AI firms’ revenues to help fund the arts, promote open access, and maintain human ingenuity & creativity.
✍️ Read their article here: buff.ly/6zoJ7wW
October 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
🤖 AI Should Help Fund Creative Labour
IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social and PhD Candidate @faustogernone.bsky.social propose a levy on AI firms’ revenues to help fund the arts, promote open access, and maintain human ingenuity & creativity.
✍️ Read their article here: buff.ly/6zoJ7wW
IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social and PhD Candidate @faustogernone.bsky.social propose a levy on AI firms’ revenues to help fund the arts, promote open access, and maintain human ingenuity & creativity.
✍️ Read their article here: buff.ly/6zoJ7wW
Having had Philippe Aghion as a professor, I admired his quick thinking but was surprised by his refusal to question economics’ reliance on ideas like consumer rationality or general equilibrium (and I did try!)
October 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Having had Philippe Aghion as a professor, I admired his quick thinking but was surprised by his refusal to question economics’ reliance on ideas like consumer rationality or general equilibrium (and I did try!)
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Rewilding the Internet @robin.berjon.com
Variety warfare by Big Tech @faustogernone.bsky.social
Variety-selection-adaptation framework to the DMA 😇
Variety warfare by Big Tech @faustogernone.bsky.social
Variety-selection-adaptation framework to the DMA 😇
Experiment: using AI to lower barriers to entry by Wavesblog Readers, hope you don't mind ;-) competitionwave.blogspot.com/2025/10/coor...
Coordination and Power
F. Gernone, here. This is a very basic AI generated video overview produced by Notebook LM - lowering your barriers to entry. The paper ...
competitionwave.blogspot.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Rewilding the Internet @robin.berjon.com
Variety warfare by Big Tech @faustogernone.bsky.social
Variety-selection-adaptation framework to the DMA 😇
Variety warfare by Big Tech @faustogernone.bsky.social
Variety-selection-adaptation framework to the DMA 😇
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✍️ Coordination and Power
The latest paper by IIPP PhD Candidate @faustogernone.bsky.social reframes production as an information-processing endeavour. The paper was awarded the Herbert Simon Prize by the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy.
🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/dH5D65U
The latest paper by IIPP PhD Candidate @faustogernone.bsky.social reframes production as an information-processing endeavour. The paper was awarded the Herbert Simon Prize by the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy.
🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/dH5D65U
October 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
✍️ Coordination and Power
The latest paper by IIPP PhD Candidate @faustogernone.bsky.social reframes production as an information-processing endeavour. The paper was awarded the Herbert Simon Prize by the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy.
🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/dH5D65U
The latest paper by IIPP PhD Candidate @faustogernone.bsky.social reframes production as an information-processing endeavour. The paper was awarded the Herbert Simon Prize by the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy.
🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/dH5D65U
Sooo excited that my paper Coordination and Power has been awarded the 2025 Herbert Simon Prize by the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE)! 😁 Read it here: buff.ly/G9yCRDh
September 27, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Sooo excited that my paper Coordination and Power has been awarded the 2025 Herbert Simon Prize by the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE)! 😁 Read it here: buff.ly/G9yCRDh
“Vacuum cleaners to ensure clean houses are praiseworthy and essential in our standard of living. Street cleaners to ensure clean streets are an unfortunate expense. Partly as a result, our houses are generally clean and our streets are generally filthy.” J. K. Galbraith
September 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
“Vacuum cleaners to ensure clean houses are praiseworthy and essential in our standard of living. Street cleaners to ensure clean streets are an unfortunate expense. Partly as a result, our houses are generally clean and our streets are generally filthy.” J. K. Galbraith
Great to see our EuroStack initiative making waves! Over the past two weeks alone the project has been discussed in headlining articles by the Financial Times, Wired, Tech Policy and more
Proud to have co-authored the report with the brilliant @francescabria.bsky.social and @paultimmers.bsky.social
Proud to have co-authored the report with the brilliant @francescabria.bsky.social and @paultimmers.bsky.social
EuroStack
Building a european alternative for technological sovereignty
www.euro-stack.info
July 31, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Great to see our EuroStack initiative making waves! Over the past two weeks alone the project has been discussed in headlining articles by the Financial Times, Wired, Tech Policy and more
Proud to have co-authored the report with the brilliant @francescabria.bsky.social and @paultimmers.bsky.social
Proud to have co-authored the report with the brilliant @francescabria.bsky.social and @paultimmers.bsky.social
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Every time you ask ChatGPT to proofread your email you quietly borrow from the labour of millions. In this sense, cultural production has already become a planetary co-operative. Updating its funding mechanism accordingly is necessary: it is time to socialise AI’s inputs.
@faustogernone.bsky.social
@faustogernone.bsky.social
AI Should Help Fund Creative Labor
Mariana Mazzucato & Fausto Gernone show how today’s innovation economy exploits the very people it relies on and propose a fairer system.
www.project-syndicate.org
July 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Every time you ask ChatGPT to proofread your email you quietly borrow from the labour of millions. In this sense, cultural production has already become a planetary co-operative. Updating its funding mechanism accordingly is necessary: it is time to socialise AI’s inputs.
@faustogernone.bsky.social
@faustogernone.bsky.social
Cultural production has already become a planetary co-operative. Aligning its funding mechanism accordingly is necessary. We can reach that alignment the smart way or the hard way, but reach it we will.
Read our proposal. @mazzucatom.bsky.social
www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/how-...
Read our proposal. @mazzucatom.bsky.social
www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/how-...
AI Should Help Fund Creative Labor
Mariana Mazzucato & Fausto Gernone show how today’s innovation economy exploits the very people it relies on and propose a fairer system.
www.project-syndicate.org
July 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Cultural production has already become a planetary co-operative. Aligning its funding mechanism accordingly is necessary. We can reach that alignment the smart way or the hard way, but reach it we will.
Read our proposal. @mazzucatom.bsky.social
www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/how-...
Read our proposal. @mazzucatom.bsky.social
www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/how-...
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Ha-Joon Chang, writing in the FT, finds that economics courses STILL do not take the planet or the environment into account, rendering them functionally useless. An excerpt follows.
July 24, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Ha-Joon Chang, writing in the FT, finds that economics courses STILL do not take the planet or the environment into account, rendering them functionally useless. An excerpt follows.
on.ft.com/4kWYNqt public equity stakes would be a fine thing
Inject equity in green industry not subsidies, EU tells capitals
Competition chief Teresa Ribera says Brussels will allow governments to take stakes in companies
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June 25, 2025 at 7:05 AM
on.ft.com/4kWYNqt public equity stakes would be a fine thing
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🤖 How can governments regulate #AI for the common good?
IIPP's @mazzucatom.bsky.social and @faustogernone.bsky.social argue that governments must take an active role in AI development by shaping markets and designing systems that serve the common good.
✍️ Read more here: buff.ly/ZvHYNzZ
IIPP's @mazzucatom.bsky.social and @faustogernone.bsky.social argue that governments must take an active role in AI development by shaping markets and designing systems that serve the common good.
✍️ Read more here: buff.ly/ZvHYNzZ
June 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🤖 How can governments regulate #AI for the common good?
IIPP's @mazzucatom.bsky.social and @faustogernone.bsky.social argue that governments must take an active role in AI development by shaping markets and designing systems that serve the common good.
✍️ Read more here: buff.ly/ZvHYNzZ
IIPP's @mazzucatom.bsky.social and @faustogernone.bsky.social argue that governments must take an active role in AI development by shaping markets and designing systems that serve the common good.
✍️ Read more here: buff.ly/ZvHYNzZ
Reposted by Fausto Gernone
🤖 How can governments regulate #AI for the common good?
IIPP's @mazzucatom.bsky.social and @faustogernone.bsky.social argue that governments must take an active role in AI development by shaping markets and designing systems that serve the common good.
✍️ Read more here: buff.ly/ZvHYNzZ
IIPP's @mazzucatom.bsky.social and @faustogernone.bsky.social argue that governments must take an active role in AI development by shaping markets and designing systems that serve the common good.
✍️ Read more here: buff.ly/ZvHYNzZ
May 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
🤖 How can governments regulate #AI for the common good?
IIPP's @mazzucatom.bsky.social and @faustogernone.bsky.social argue that governments must take an active role in AI development by shaping markets and designing systems that serve the common good.
✍️ Read more here: buff.ly/ZvHYNzZ
IIPP's @mazzucatom.bsky.social and @faustogernone.bsky.social argue that governments must take an active role in AI development by shaping markets and designing systems that serve the common good.
✍️ Read more here: buff.ly/ZvHYNzZ
As digital platforms are increasingly leveraged to shape politics across borders, problems of sovereignty and accountability have become impossible to ignore. The debate has now shifted from from identifying the problem to working out solutions. Great chat yesterday at @iipp-ucl.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
As digital platforms are increasingly leveraged to shape politics across borders, problems of sovereignty and accountability have become impossible to ignore. The debate has now shifted from from identifying the problem to working out solutions. Great chat yesterday at @iipp-ucl.bsky.social
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🎤To answer these pressing questions, IIPP Prof @ceciliarikap.bsky.social welcomes panelists, academics, and scholars: @ibalilebali.bsky.social, Carla Bonina, @mattcole.bsky.social, @paologerbaudo.bsky.social , @faustogernone.bsky.social, Edemilson Paraná, @roserpujadas.bsky.social, and Ana Valdivia
May 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
🎤To answer these pressing questions, IIPP Prof @ceciliarikap.bsky.social welcomes panelists, academics, and scholars: @ibalilebali.bsky.social, Carla Bonina, @mattcole.bsky.social, @paologerbaudo.bsky.social , @faustogernone.bsky.social, Edemilson Paraná, @roserpujadas.bsky.social, and Ana Valdivia
Great read!!!
Did you notice that Meta has integrated its AI assistant into WhatsApp? 🤖 I did, and think the company risks violating EU competition law by doing so. ⚖️
Blog post in @wolterskluwer.com here: competitionlawblog.kluwercompetitionlaw.com/2025/04/30/d...
Blog post in @wolterskluwer.com here: competitionlawblog.kluwercompetitionlaw.com/2025/04/30/d...
April 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Great read!!!
Is the copyright controversy surrounding generative AI a step towards the long-run collectivisation of knowledge production, or will it remain a blatant manifestation of extractivism?
April 2, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Is the copyright controversy surrounding generative AI a step towards the long-run collectivisation of knowledge production, or will it remain a blatant manifestation of extractivism?
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The EU risks becoming a technological vassal state. Our hidden gem of the week proposes an open-source pan-European digital infrastructure rooted in democracy.
By @francescabria.bsky.social, @paultimmers.bsky.social & @faustogernone.bsky.social at @bertelsmannst.bsky.social
https://buff.ly/4h2JsBY
By @francescabria.bsky.social, @paultimmers.bsky.social & @faustogernone.bsky.social at @bertelsmannst.bsky.social
https://buff.ly/4h2JsBY
February 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The EU risks becoming a technological vassal state. Our hidden gem of the week proposes an open-source pan-European digital infrastructure rooted in democracy.
By @francescabria.bsky.social, @paultimmers.bsky.social & @faustogernone.bsky.social at @bertelsmannst.bsky.social
https://buff.ly/4h2JsBY
By @francescabria.bsky.social, @paultimmers.bsky.social & @faustogernone.bsky.social at @bertelsmannst.bsky.social
https://buff.ly/4h2JsBY
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Important @ucl-iipp.bsky.social report by @francescabria.bsky.social and @faustogernone.bsky.social on why Europe must move beyond incrementalism in digital sovereignty.
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New EuroStack Report Launched: A Bold Vision for Europe’s Digital Sovereignty
On 13 February 2025, the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) launches the highly anticipated "EuroStack – A European Alternative for Digital Sovereignty" report, providing a…
www.ucl.ac.uk
February 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Important @ucl-iipp.bsky.social report by @francescabria.bsky.social and @faustogernone.bsky.social on why Europe must move beyond incrementalism in digital sovereignty.
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