ColaborAmerica 2018 - English Programme

Galileo Galilei revolutionized science when he aimed his telescope at the Moon and then at Jupiter in 1610. The contributions of Copernicus, Giordano Bruno, Kepler, and other astronomers began to be "seen" and confirmed. It was a devastating shock to the ideas espoused by the Catholic Church and Ptolemy's astronomy. After this leap in knowledge, one could no longer look at the sky in the same way. Something similar happened recently in economics. In unraveling the cosmos of international trade with techniques of Big Data, networks and complexity, Cesar Hidalgo and Ricardo Hausmann caused in contemporary economic studies a shock of the magnitude of the Galileo telescope. The "observatory of complexity" has once and for all demolished the old ideas about international trade, we now have a globally interconnected economy, and we need another look to understand it.