“As Mariana Mazzucato has shown in her magisterial book, The Value of Everything (Public Affairs, 2018), the whole edifice of modern economics has been erected on the assumption that the purpose of a firm, and indeed the economy as a whole, is to make money: value is seen as just a synonym for price. ”… more
“An inquiry into the nature of value in an economy might not seem an obvious place to begin. Yet The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy, by Mariana Mazzucato, helps establish the intellectual roots of the odd history of the past decade.” Ryan Avent more
“In this thought-provoking book, Mariana Mazzucato, professor at University College London, argues that it is far too easy for those operating in the contemporary market economy to get rich by extracting value from those who actually create it, not by adding it themselves. To understand this, we need to return to the question with which… more
“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
“A stimulating analysis […] which forces us to confront long-held beliefs about how economies work and who benefits” Martin Wolf more
“The book,The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy […] offers a fundamental re-think of what constitutes real value in the economy. It traces the origins of current economic thinking from its origins in the seventeenth century to the growth of the financial sector and the financialization of the 21st-century economy. It explains… more
“Mariana Mazzucato is sure the economic forces that affect our lives can serve the public interest again” Angela Nagle more
“In The Value of Everything, Mazzucato points out our flawed economic measures. But solutions are in short supply.” Adam Tooze more
“En ese sentido, el libro de Mazzucato instala una pregunta que es de plena actualidad en Chile donde la rebaja de impuestos se presenta como la gran vía para incentivar el crecimiento. ¿Por qué no se exige como condición que ese beneficio se dirija a empresas productivas que creen empleos y no se vaya a… more
“University College London economist Mariana Mazzucato is on a mission to change economics with a central role for debates about “value”.” Jasper Jolly more