Mariana Mazzucato: The Value of Everything — making and taking in the global economy

Mariana Mazzucato argues in her penetrating and passionate new book The Value of Everything, if we are to reform capitalism — radically to transform an increasingly sick system rather than continue feeding it — we urgently need to rethink where wealth comes from. Which activities create it, which extract it, which destroy it? Answers to these questions are key if we want to replace the current parasitic system with a type of capitalism that is more sustainable, more symbiotic — that works for us all. The Value of Everything reignites a long-needed debate about the kind of world we really want to live in.

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‘Putting public value back into the heart of economic policy’ by Mariana Mazzucato.

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