April 2022 – Economics of Information Society

Global reset – Technology decoupling (Part 4: The geopolitics of data)

Global reset – Technology decoupling (Part 4: The geopolitics of data) Phuah Eng Chye (23 April 2022) Data is the indispensable resource in the information society. UNCTAD notes digital data “are core to all fast-evolving digital technologies, such as data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing and other Internet-based services…global … “Global reset – Technology decoupling (Part 4: The geopolitics of data)”

Global reset – Technology decoupling (Part 3: The standard setting battleground)

Global reset – Technology decoupling (Part 3: The standard setting battleground) Phuah Eng Chye (9 April 2022) Tim Rühlig points out “technical standard setting has emerged in recent years as one of the key battlegrounds in the struggle among states to gain dominance in high technology sectors. While the core competition is between the People’s … “Global reset – Technology decoupling (Part 3: The standard setting battleground)”

Phuah Eng Chye

I was formerly a securities regulator and equities analyst. I started writing these articles (and a book) because I felt that there were a lot of economic theories that didn’t seem to match up to the realities we are facing. This also means that a lot of policies (based on these theories) are wrong. So I’ve tried to make sense of how things worked based on the paradigm of an information society. Its a challenging topic and difficult to pin down. This means I have had to explore issues over a wide range of policy areas. Over the next few months, I will cover the service economy, the sharing economy, household and work structures before moving onto policy issues on the anorexic economy (role of corporates, basic income, housing affordability) and the financialisation process (capital, monetary policy, securities regulation).

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