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The world needs governments to take more risks

The world needs governments to take more risks, according to economist Mariana Mazzucato

Watch: World Economic Forum

20 July 2022

An effective pandemic response must be truly global

The world needs a global pandemic preparedness and response strategy that is built on equitable and representative decision-making. But developing one will require the G20 and the World Bank to abandon their current "health for some" approach, according to Professor Mariana Mazzucato and Professor Jayati Ghosh 

Read: Project Syndicate

20 July 2022

Keith Magee appointed as Chair of The Guardian Foundation’s board

IIPP Visiting Professor Keith Magee is appointed as Chair of The Guardian Foundation board. 

Read: The Guardian

19 July 2022

Mariana Mazzucato: leading a new type of economics

Jessamy Bagenal discusses the work of Professor Mariana Mazzucato on the WHO Council on the Economics of Health For All. 

Read: The Lancet 

16 July 2022

Six policies to restrain profits and get wages on track

While the UK economy is subject to the same global factors as other countries around the world – Covid supply chain disruptions and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, for example – signs suggest it will do even worse than its competitors, according to Professor Mariana Mazzucato 

Read: The Times

16 July 2022

Economics made simple: 10 experts on where the cost of living crisis came from, and where it’s heading

What could / should the government be doing and will the crisis eventually bring down house prices? Professor Mariana Mazzucato and Associate Professor in Economics and Finance Dr Josh Ryan-Collins explore these areas in their recent Guardian article.

Read: The Guardian

16 July 2022

Going to the moon and back 

In the penultimate episode of this season from the Academy of Social Sciences, Professor Mariana Mazzucato invites Will Hutton to IIPP to explain how the public sector could be reshaped to benefit everyone.

Listen: The We Society Podcast (30 minutes and 22 seconds)

12 July 2022

Keith Magee appointed as Chair of The Guardian Foundation’s board

IIPP Visiting Professor Keith Magee is appointed as Chair of The Guardian Foundation board. 

Read: The Guardian

19 July 2022

How the G7 Could Help the Debt-Distressed

If G7 leaders are serious about helping low- and middle-income countries prepare for the next pandemic or address climate change, they have an odd way of showing it. As many developing countries hurtle toward a debt crisis, rich countries are failing to pull the levers that could help them avoid the worst.

Read: Project Syndicate

23 June 2022

BBC Newsnight

Professor Mariana Mazzucato appears on BBC Newsnight to discuss inflation and pay.

Watch: Newsnight (from 13:08 - 20:27)

22 June 2022

Moving beyond the rhetoric of purpose and building a truly multi-stakeholder approach

A guest op-ed from Mariana Mazzucato, professor in the economics of innovation and public value at University College London

Read: The Economist

21 June 2022

Is This What True Emancipation Looks Like?

As we celebrate Juneteenth, we should remember that our freedom is still incomplete, says Visiting Professor Keith Magee in his recent piece for The Root.

Read: The Root

19 June 2022

Carlota Pérez : "La jeunesse gaspille son talent dans la chimère des cryptomonnaies"

A specialist in innovation, IIPP Professor Carlota Perez explains how the digital revolution, associated with the ecological transition, could lead us to a "golden age".

Read: L'Express

12 June 2022

A New Model for African Health

'Despite inadequate international support and a lack of access to COVID-19 vaccines, African governments and regional institutions have acquitted themselves well in responding to the pandemic. The task now is to build on these successes, making “health for all” an overarching whole-of-government priority, according to Professor Mariana Mazzucato and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, Vera Songwe

Read: Project Syndicate

20 May 2022

Three lessons from countries that performed best in tackling Covid-19 challenges

Key factors in countries’ success during the pandemic are long-term investment in public health systems, mission-driven leadership and fiscal space, according to Professor Jayati Ghosh and Professor Mariana Mazzucato

Read: South China Morning Post

25 May 2022

Why the British state is a magic money tree

Government spending power is limited not by tax revenues or borrowing, but by the productive capacity of the UK economy and political will, according to Associate Professor in Economics and Finance Dr Josh Ryan-Collins

Read: The New Statesman

20 May 2022

Forget greenflation, central banks need to tackle fossilflation

Rate hikes will hit already financially constrained households and businesses, and exacerbate the cost-of-living crisis, according to IIPP Policy Fellow Katie Kedward

Read: Green Central Banking

19 May 2022

The Gender Pay Gap Is Wider Than You Thought 

Making women's unpaid care work count toward an economy for health 

Read: Think Global Health

11 May 2022

Global health should not be determined by pharma investors and shareholders

Professor Els Toreele explores what could go wrong when pharmaceutical company shareholders and investors shape the public health response to Covid-19. 

Read: Stat News

3 May 2022

How to Design a Pandemic Preparedness and Response Fund

With over two-thirds of the African continent still unvaccinated against COVID-19, it is clear that the global pandemic preparedness and response (PPR) regime remains seriously underfunded and lacking in resilient, effective delivery systems.

Read: Project Syndicate

20 April 2022

In the end, if you want to democratise the economy, you will need the state

Francesca Bria, president of the Italian National Innovation Fund, on the politics of cryptocurrencies, decentralisation, blockchain and the state.

Read: The New Statesman

1 April 2022

UCL Academic To Co-Chair Global Commission On The Economics Of Water

Prof Mazzucato to co-chair the newly launched Global Commission on the Economics of Water

Read: India Education Diary 

31 March 2022

Minister’s statement on Inclusive and Sustainable British Columbia report

Ravi Kahlon, Minister of Jobs, Economic Recovery and Innovation praises the report released by Professor Mariana Mazzucato on the StrongerBC Economic Plan titled 'Inclusive and Sustainable British Columbia: a mission-oriented approach to a renewed economy'.

Read: British Columbia

31 March 2022

The Context with Christian Fraser

Dr Josh Ryan-Collins on BBC world on the threat of interest rate rises for the market 

Watch: The Context (from 48:42 - 55:01)

31 March 2022

The stakes are high – America must take radical action now to guarantee equal voting rights for all

In this Q&A the Reverend Professor Keith Magee looks at how voting rights in the US became so vulnerable, and how a new 28th Amendment to the US Constitution establishing every American’s right to vote in free, fair, and transparent elections would protect these rights. 

Read: LSE Blogs

22 March 2022

What If Our Economy Valued What Matters?

In an economy that treats gross domestic product as the ultimate end, people and the planet are mere means, and much of the work that sustains society is ignored entirely. This status quo is not only pathological, unsustainable, and bad for our health; it is also entirely unnecessary.

Read: Project Syndicate

8 March 2022

The Biscay Model: innovation in taxation could advance the SDGs. An expert explains

Tax systems are a powerful tool to help finance advancement of the SDGs by mobilizing resources, redistributing wealth, and promoting sustainable consumption and production patterns.

Read: World Economic Forum

4 March 2022

The inclusive entrepreneurial state: collective wealth creation and distribution

How should the wealth that an economy generates be distributed?

Read: The IFS Deaton Review

3 March 2022

Can Democrats See What's Coming? 

Ezra Klein discusses the recent political landscape of the United States

Read: The New York Times

19 February 2022

Tokenization is the latest manifestation of what we can call super-financialization

'Of all the promises made in the name of Web3, two stand out as particularly radical and beneficial to democracy.'

Read: Shifter

18 February 2022

The anatomy of technology regulation

'The 2020s will undoubtedly be characterised by new technology regulation. But while today’s technologies are global, the rules governing their development and use are not.'

Read: The Jordan Times

10 February 2022

Mariana Mazzucato: governments must collaborate with private sector

The state should lead market innovations to address humanity's biggest problems, a renowned economist says.

Read: Radio New Zealand

2 February 2022

Big Tech Must Stop Hiding

A major reason why Big Tech firms have achieved such scale and become the gatekeepers to entire markets is that they have been able to obscure most of their financial and operating data, according to Professor Mariana Mazzucato and Ilan Strauss

Read: Project Syndicate

31 January 2022

BBC Hardtalk

Stephen Sackur speaks to the economist Mariana Mazzucato. Does her moonshot economics ignore some earthly realities?

Watch: BBC Hardtalk

27 January 2022

The stinginess of WHO members puts health at risk

Faced with a present dominated by the challenge of defeating the pandemic, it is necessary to increase contributions to the international organization that is best prepared to combat health threats, according to Professor Mariana Mazzucato and Ilona Kickbusch

Read: El Pais

11 January 2022

Rethinking technology policy and governance for the 21st Century

Today’s major technology firms wield huge social and political influence across the world to the point that their actions, and the content they host, is often seen as a direct challenge to national sovereignty and the norms and power structures that support states.

Read: Brookings

11 January 2022

Big Pharma must make profits, but not mega-profits

According to Professor Mariana Mazzucato, the policies in place work more at the service of Big Pharma which wants to maximize profits when they should be at the service of the populations.

Read: LeTemps

10 January 2022

Mariana Mazzucato on rethinking the state to improve partnerships

Current social movements and the willingness from businesses and governments to act can create a road ahead to address key issues facing the world.

Read: World Economic Forum

6 January 2022