Marco Annunziata

Marco Annunziata is Co-Founder of Annunziata + Desai Advisors, a consultancy on economics, innovation and business strategy, and Visiting Professor at Singapore Management University. He is a TED speaker, author of The Economics of the Financial Crisis, and co-host of the M4Edge tech podcast.

A moonshot in the dark: industrial policy’s pros and cons

Industrial policy is all the rage, embraced by both US presidential candidates and favored by parties across the political spectrum in countless countries. Now even the International Monetary Fund, in its latest Finance & Development…

Generative AI: Creativity, productivity and jobs

Generative AI will inevitably be used as a powerful manipulation tool. The evidence is already piling in, even more shocking than I would have expected at this early stage. Take Matt Taibbi, the investigative journalist most recently famous…

China’s Three-Body Problem

The Biden-Xi Jinping meeting in San Francisco has focused attention on the fraught relationship between the two superpowers – and on China’s three-body problem. China spearheads an open challenge to the Western view of the world and to the…

Three early lessons from the latest bout of financial markets turmoil: banks and beyond

Today a bank can suddenly go bust having invested most of its money in the safest financial assets on the planet. Let that sink in for a moment. It is a delicate juncture in financial markets. I think the financial system is in a much more…

We follow the science, then politics intrudes

Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, “follow the science!” has been repeated like a mantra. Yet we have followed science at a safe distance at best. Europe’s AstraZeneca vaccine saga is the latest example. Some people suffered blood clots…

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