Media

Professor Mazzucato contributes to media around the world. She regularly appears on TV programmes including BBC Newsnight, Channel 4 News, Sky News, Bloomberg News, and Italian programmes including Ballaro' and Otto e Mezzo (see TV interviews here).

Her articles have been published internationally including in the Guardian, the Observer, the Financial Times, The Economist, Project Syndicate, Foreign Affairs, La Repubblica, the New Statesman and Wired Magazine. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Forbes magazine, The Economist, the Financial Times, The New York Review of Books, and Corriere della Sera among others. For a full list of articles see links below.

In 2013 the New Republic called her "one of the three most important thinkers about innovation". Click here to download a press bio sheet.

After Irma, let those who use our tax havens contribute to the repairs

September 10, 2017

The Caribbean poor might have been devastated by disaster, but their islands also host huge global wealth.

Trump’s infrastructure plan is pillar of his agenda

June 18, 2017

Shovel-ready infrastructure is not the solution Mazzucato writes.

An Entrepreneurial Society Needs an Entrepreneurial State

October 25, 2016

Innovation-led growth can square a circle that is challenging modern capitalism, says Mazzucato

New Times: why it’s time for progressives to rethink capitalism

September 22, 2016

We need to understand wealth creation as a collective process, argues Mazzucato.

A strong industrial strategy has many benefits

August 3, 2016

The argument should be about the best way the state can help drive growth, writes in her article Mariana Mazzucato.

A State-Powered Green Revolution

March 10, 2016

Mazzucato on why public agency ARPA-E has beaten the private sector to a key breakthrough in battery technology.

Mariana Mazzucato on making waves as an economist — and in the pool

May 11, 2018

“When she’s not tackling the failings of modern capitalism, the economist hits the swimming pool to unwind” Delphine Strauss more

Britain’s economy is ‘broken’ and failing to tackle inequality, says major new report

September 6, 2017

Mazzucato’s report ‘Time for Change: A New Vision for the British Economy’ more

Interview with Times Higher Education

March 2, 2017

Mazzucato discusses establishing a new Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose at UCL more

Sisters doing what they love

June 16, 2016

“Valentina and Mariana Mazzucato are both leading scholars in their fields of research: migration and the economics of innovation, respectively. […] Judging by these sisters, if there’s a key to success, it’s enthusiasm.” Jolien Linssen more

Lunch with the FT: Mariana Mazzucato

August 14, 2015

Professor Mazzucato talks about ‘austerity craziness’ and the dangers of Silicon Valley ‘free-riding’ more

Government R&D, Private Profits and the American Taxpayer

May 26, 2015

“Professor Mazzucato’s proposal is worth pondering…. Taxpayers have a large, unacknowledged more

Featured TV

CHANNEL 4 NEWS

April 26, 2018

A ‘parasitic’ system in need of change

Bloomberg

April 24, 2018

Rethinking Capitalism to Create Global Value

NEWSNIGHT, BBC 2

January 31, 2018

Public vs Private Sector

Puls 4 News, Austria

September 10, 2017

Role of the State, Innovation and sustainable growth

The Banker

January 23, 2017

China under Trump: The green innovation race

Question Time, BBC

November 24, 2016

UK Government Autumn Budget & Brexit

Featured Radio

BBC Radio 4 – Start the Week: Dark Satanic Mills

May 21, 2018

“The economist Mariana Mazzucato is calling for a reform of capitalism, to replace taking with making. She argues that the global economy has become a parasitic system in which value-extraction is more highly rewarded than value-creation.”