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

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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: IIPP Communications Team, iippcomms@ucl.ac.uk, T: 07388 220 201

Featured Articles By Mazzucato

Top economists warn the UK not to repeat austerity after the Covid-19 crisis

May 4, 2020

Mariana Mazzucato and others on why the UK must not impose spending cuts in response to higher debt.

How to Develop a COVID-19 Vaccine for All

April 27, 2020

Strong health systems, adequate testing capacity, and an effective, universally available vaccine will be key to protecting societies from COVID-19. But ensuring that no one is left behind requires not just unprecedented collective investment, but also a very different approach to innovation.

Drug Companies Will Make a Killing From Coronavirus

March 18, 2020

Unless we fix the system, American taxpayers will get gouged on a vaccine they paid to produce.

The Covid-19 crisis is a chance to do capitalism differently

March 18, 2020

Government has the upper hand for the first time in a generation. It must seize the moment.

Labour’s manifesto: economic experts’ verdict on its radical vision

November 24, 2019

Economic experts on the pros and cons of the party’s ambitious policy programme

Labour knew austerity was wrong. Now, at last, it also has a vision for growth

November 15, 2019

We need to move away from ‘shovel-ready’ projects and think about ‘green transition’ projects

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The 50 most influential people in Britain

February 5, 2020

“Routing the male, pale and stale world of post-hegemony economics, Mazzucato has become a crucial voice in the field of left-wing academic thought. Her idea that the state should drive innovation has gained teeth with the UK, EU and UN – and she has proven a persuasive critic of austerity.” more

Labour pledges to break patents and offer latest drugs on NHS

October 4, 2019

“Prof Mariana Mazzucato, director of the University College London Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, said: “It is welcome that the Labour party is addressing key failures of the pharmaceutical sector.” Sarah Boseley more

Times CEO Summit 2019: Digital transformation has ‘stalled’ and is costing the UK billions

June 12, 2019

“Mariana Mazzucato said the government needed to rethink its approach to public investment. Governments should “fuel bottom-up experimentation” and embrace failure if they want to deliver the “moonshot” innovations of the future, equivalent to the internet and GPS” Philip Aldrick more

Next PM can’t afford to drop the ball on our industrial strategy

June 3, 2019

“Together with Mariana Mazzucato, I chair a commission which reported last week on mission-oriented industrial strategy and how we should identify challenges and missions and tackle them in a way which promotes innovation and boosts our economy.” David Willetts more

Mission critical

April 24, 2019

“Economist Mariana Mazzucato explains how solving society’s toughest problems starts with rethinking how value is created and innovation is incentivized.” Deborah Unger more

Brexit has a chance to kick-start a period of radical change

April 22, 2019

“The next wave of tech is now crashing into some of the “hard” sectors of the economy […], all heavily regulated by the state. To succeed, government and business are going to have to “co-create” markets, in the words of Mariana Mazzucato, who runs the IIPP.” John Thornhill more

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Featured TV

BBC World

May 27, 2020

Interview with IIPP Director Mariana Mazzucato

Channel 4 News

March 11, 2020

Discussing the importance of a Coronavirus budget

BBC Newsnight

November 21, 2019

Discussing the Labour manifesto

CNN

April 26, 2019

With Amanpour: Green New Deal could fuel growth

BBC Live Politics

April 5, 2019

Brexit, social media and The Value of Everything

CHANNEL 4 NEWS

April 26, 2018

A ‘parasitic’ system in need of change

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Featured Radio

Directing innovation towards sustainable growth

July 22, 2019

John Thornhill talks to economist Mariana Mazzucato about her work to promote collaboration between governments and companies to direct innovation towards sustainable and inclusive growth.

The Innovation Economy

June 8, 2019

Mariana and Azeem Azhar discuss the role of government in innovation and business growth, risk-taking as the new mentality of bureaucracy, and how the benefits of entrepreneurial innovation have been misread.

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Featured Blogs

Rethinking Value

June 24, 2019

“What happens when we confuse price with value? We end up undervaluing care. We pollute more. And the financial sector is allowed to brag about how productive it is—while often just moving around existing value, created by others. Most importantly we end up with a form of capitalism that rewards value extraction activities over value… more

The Brexit-Trump Syndrome: it’s the economics, stupid

November 21, 2016

The Brexit and Trump electoral results make this increasingly look like the beginning of a new political era. If policymakers are more

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