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  • 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

Toward a New Fiscal Constitution

Toward a New Fiscal Constitution

With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing governments to spend on an unprecedented scale, it’s time to restore the state to its proper role as a rudder for the broader economy.

No More Free-Lunch Bailouts

No More Free-Lunch Bailouts

With governments spending on a massive scale to mitigate the economic fallout from COVID-19, they should be positioning their economies for a more sustainable future.

The Big Failure of Small Government

The Big Failure of Small Government

It is no coincidence that countries with mission-driven governments have fared better in the COVID-19 crisis than have countries beholden to the cult of efficiency.

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The 50 most influential people in Britain

The 50 most influential people in Britain

“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

Mission critical

Mission critical

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

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Featured TV

BBC World

Interview with IIPP Director Mariana Mazzucato

Channel 4 News

Discussing the importance of a Coronavirus budget

CNN

With Amanpour: Green New Deal could fuel growth

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Featured Radio

“The world’s scariest economist” on coronavirus…

“The world’s scariest economist” on coronavirus…

The Times of London called Mariana Mazzucato “the world’s scariest economist.” Quartz describes her as “on a mission to save capitalism from itself.” Wired says she has “a plan to fix capitalism,” and warns that “it’s time we all listened.

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Featured Blogs

Rethinking Value

Rethinking Value

“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

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