From one of the world's leading economists, a bestselling expose of the state's crucial role in sparking innovation and growth - and the dangers of ignoring this truth.
Mariana Mazzucato (Author, Preface By)
Mariana Mazzucato is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and
Public Value at University College London, where she is Founding
Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose. Her
previous posts include the RM Phillips Professorial Chair at the
Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University.
She is the winner of international prizes including the Grande
Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana in 2021,
Italy's highest civilian honour, the 2020 John von Neumann Award,
the 2019 All European Academies Madame de Stael Prize for Cultural
Values, and the 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of
Economic Thought. Most recently, Pope Francis appointed her to the
Pontifical Academy for Life for bringing 'more humanity' to the
world.
As well as The Entrepreneurial State, she is the author of The
Value of Everything- Making and Taking in the Global Economy
(2018), Mission Economy- A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
(2021), and The Big Con- How the Consulting Industry Weakens our
Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies
(2023).
She advises policy makers around the world on innovation-led,
inclusive and sustainable growth. Her current roles have included
for example Chair of the World Health Organization's Council on the
Economics of Health for All, Co-Chair of the Global Commission on
the Economics of Water, Co-Chair of the Council on Urban
Initiatives, and member of the South African President's Economic
Advisory Council. Previously, through her role as Special Advisor
for the EC Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation
(2017-2019), she authored the high-impact report on
Mission-Oriented Research and Innovation in the European Union,
turning 'missions' into a crucial new instrument in the European
Commission's Horizon innovation programme, and more recently,
authored a report with the UN's Economic Commission for Latin
America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on Transformational Change in
Latin America and the Caribbean- A mission-oriented approach.
Read her book. It will challenge your thinking
*Forbes*
One of the most incisive economics books in years
*New York Review of Books*
This book has a controversial thesis. But it is basically right
*Financial Times*
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