Blog Articles and Op-Eds
I frequently contribute opinion and popular articles to The Conversation, Illuminem, Daily Maverick, NRC, Het Financiele Dagblad, and BNNVARA.
I also write on Medium.
2025
Oekraïnedeal: Europa betaalt, terwijl VS cashen, Het Financieele Dagblad, 17 Feb 2025
Oligarchs and climate catastrophe: no coincidence, Illuminem, 31 Jan 2025
Big Tech isn’t the Biggest Problem: The Oligarchies in Oil, Food, Finance and Weapons are Much More Dangerous, Medium, 19 Jan 2025
Promoting entrepreneurial ecosystems is bad for the planet - even digitalization won't help, Illuminem, 18 Jan 2025
Big Tech is niet de echte vloek: de oligarchieën in olie, voedsel, financiën en wapens zijn veel gevaarlijker, BNNVARA, 21 Jan 2025
De Zuid-Afrikaanse oligarchie is een waarschuwing voor Europa, BNNVARA, 12 Jan 2025
2024
Vrees niet onze eigen AI, maar ET-AI, Beste-ID, 28 Dec 2024
The Twilight of German Innovation, Baltic Rim Economies, issue #4, 18 Dec 2024
Duitsland was Ooit het Toonbeeld van Innovatie, Het Financieele Dagblad, 11 Dec 2024
Why an artificial intelligence moonshot for Europe is a bad idea, Illuminem, 29 Aug2024
De ineenstorting van de Westerse oorlogsverhale, BNNVARA, 26 Jul 2024
De hyper-militarisering van de VS en Europa is geen teken van sterkte, maar van een stervend imperium, BNNVARA, 19 Jul 2024
Beyond Green Growth and Degrowth Fairy Tales, Illuminem, 3 Jul 2024
An Economics of Artificial Intelligence, Medium, 19 Jun 2024
Wordt Europa meegesleurd in de val van Thucydides? BNNVARA, 27 Mar 2024
Does the Fate of the Soviet Union await the West? Implications for Climate Change, Medium, 16 Mar 2024
Depopulation, Defertilisation, Deglobalization, and Domination: the End of Food Security? Illuminem, 13 Feb 2024
Predictors of AI doom may have too little imagination, not too much, The Daily Maverick, 23 Jan 2024
An Economic Perspective on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Medium, 2 Jan 2024
2023
Debunking Some Bad Ideas, Medium, 31 Dec 2023
De vraag van Fermi beantwoorden, Beste-ID, 15 Dec 2023
South Africa must beware of falling victim to green hydrogen imperialism, The Daily Maverick, 11 Dec 2023
The Next Frontier for African industrial policy, UNIDO Industrial Analytics Platform, Dec 2023
South Africa’s gamble on green hydrogen, Illuminem, 18 Nov 2023
Economic growth on a finite planet: should SDG 8 be rescued? Illuminem, 20 Sept 2023
Movimento ‘Degrowth’: atrasar crescimento econômico é má ideia para lidar com mudança climática, The Conversation, 14 Sept 2023
Ethisch bankieren bestaat niet, of: waarom groot geld slechte ideeën financiert, NRC, 20 Aug 2023
No end to the West’s economic stagnation as the climate crisis worsens, Illuminem, 16 Aug 2023
Degrowth fehlerhafte Idee, Solarify, 6 Aug 2023
Degrowth: slowing down rich economies to deal with climate change is a flawed idea, The Conversation, 31 Jul 2023
Why Degrowth won’t save the world, IZA World of Labor, 17 Jul 2023
The degrowth movement is a reaction against degrowth, Illuminem, 29th Jun 2023
Resultaten kunstmatige intelligentie vallen tegen, ESB, 20 Apr 2023
Hysterie over AI verbloemt tekortkomingen tech-industrie, NRC, 9 Apr 2023
Artificial General Intelligence: can we avoid the ultimate existential threat? OECD AI Policy Observatory, 26 Jan 2023
Seven Reasons why Degrowth is No Solution to the Ecological Crisis, Illuminem, 23 Mar 2023
Open letters, AI hysteria, and airstrikes against data centres – why is the Tech Nobility freaking out? Daily Maverick, 3 Apr 2023
The Stop-Button Society: Longing for the End of Capitalism? Medium, 8 Mar 2023
2022
Existential Risk and AI: Should we Fear Extraterrestrial Artificial Intelligence? Medium, 24 Nov 2022
Sustainable Development: Is Entrepreneurship Falling Short of Expectations? Medium, 30 Nov 2022
New Deal to Decarbonise Shipping isn’t Enough – Here’s How Global Trade can Reach Net-Zero, The European Financial Review, 1 Sept 2022
Pięć powodów, dla których czterodniowy tydzień pracy nie zadziała, 300Gospodarka, 26 Aug 2022
The four-day work week may be too good to be true, here’s why, World Economic Forum, 9 Aug 2022
每周四天工作制可能没有你想象中那么好, World Economic Forum, 8 Aug 2022
Five Reasons why the Four-Day Working Week Won’t Work, The Conversation, 4 Aug 2022
Politique industrielle pour le développement à l'ère du capitalisme de plateforme, GlobalDev Blog, 8 Jun 2022
How Can We Ignite a Climate Technology Revolution? Illuminem, 14 Jul 2022
2021
Cambio climático: el calentamiento “seguro” de 1,5 °C no es tan seguro como creemos, The Conversation, 15 Dec 2021
New deal to decarbonise shipping isn’t enough – here’s how global trade can reach net-zero, The Conversation, 17 Nov 2021
Sisi buruk artificial intelligence di balik potensi bisnis besar, The Conversation, 21 Sept 2021
Artificial intelligence: governments see huge business potential, but ignore the downsides, The Conversation, 19 Jul 2021
How COVID-19 is likely to slow down a decade of youth development in Africa, The Conversation, 4 May 2021
We need hard science, not software, to power our post-pandemic recovery 2020, The Conversation, 19 Jan 2021
2020
Artificial Intelligence Against COVID-19: An Early Review, Medium: Towards Data Science, 1 Apr 2020
