Economics - Innovation - Inclusive Growth - Public Purpose

Interview on CNN GPS with Fareed Zakaria
Discussing UK economic growth on Channel 4 News
Discussing report for Brazilian Government on Globo News
Debating the problems in the eurozone on BBC Newsnight
Interview with Ezio Mauro, Director of La Repubblica, Italy
Interview with Presa Diretta, RAI TV
CNN Money interview: Thank the government for your iPhone

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.

Media Contact: Anne Oliphant iipp-director-pa@ucl.ac.uk T: +44 (0) 203 108 6173

Featured Articles About Mazzucato

Growing firms: Mend the gap

September 7, 2018

“Being “mission-oriented” sounds like the influence of Mariana Mazzucato, who argues strenuously for recognition and enhancement of the role of the state as an investor and shaper of the economy.” Douglas Fraser more

Business Book of the Year 2018 — the longlist

August 13, 2018

“Mariana Mazzucato’s thought-provoking The Value of Everything, which argues for a more sustainable form of capitalism, “pushes us to get away from the simplistic creed that markets are always good and governments always bad”, according to the FT review.” Andrew Hill more

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

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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

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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.”