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Spain’s snap election could kill its housing revolution before it even gets started
The country’s new housing law could change so much – but may be reversed if rightwing parties gain more influence, says Eduardo González de Molina
Read: Guardian
5 June 2023
Preparing for the next pandemic will take a global commitment
The leaked draft of the WHO Pandemic Accord contains worrying signs, says Mariana Mazzucato.
Read: Financial Times
1 June 2023
Running out of battery: how post-Brexit Britain is failing to set up a future-focused economy
One-off deals, such as the one with Jaguar Land Rover to produce electric batteries, won’t keep pace with the big industrial strategies of the US and EU, says Mariana Mazzucato.
Read: The Guardian
31 May 2023
PWC Tax Leak Scandal
Rosie Collington spoke to Moya Lothian-McLean of Novara Media about conflicts of interest, the PwC Australia leaks and The Big Con, her book with Mariana Mazzucato.
Watch: Novara Media/YouTube (from 21:18)
25 May 2023
Health for All: Transforming economies to deliver what matters
The goal of Health for All can steer the direction of economic growth, writes Mariana Mazzucato.
Read: The BMJ
23 May 2023
81% of Scots think 'wealth is too concentrated'
New think tank conducts research suggesting most Scots think the economy is not on the right path
Read: Insider
10 May 2023
Avales hipotecarios: un paso atrás en vivienda (Mortgage guarantees: a step back in housing)
The Council of Ministers has approved an inflationary measure and, as it ends up benefitting people with more income, it is also regressive, writes Eduardo González de Molina.
Read: El Periódico
9 May 2023
Two-Price Economy
Minsky, First Republic Bank, and the paradox of contemporary monetary policy. Josh Ryan-Collins reflects.
Read: Phenomenal World
10 May 2023
‘Os governos ficaram viciados em consultorias e pararam de investir em pessoal’, diz economista (‘Governments became addicted to consultancies and stopped investing in personnel’, says economist)
Italian professor defends investment in empolyees and is against rules that limit public spending.
Read: Estadão
2 May 2023
Financing the Common Good
The United Nations has warned that “cascading and interlinked crises” are jeopardizing not just the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, but “humanity’s very survival.” Mitigating the threat requires a radical reform of international finance, based on a market-shaping paradigm that advances the common good.
Read: Project Syndicate
1 May 2023
Mazzucato calls for govt consultants to disclose conflicts of interest
Influential economist Mariana Mazzucato has urged Australia’s Parliament to introduce new disclosure requirements for consulting companies working for government.
Read: InnovationAus.com
1 May 2023
Consultancies are coming off a pandemic boom. Are they still worth hiring?
Professor Mariana Mazzucato and her co-author Rosie Collington argue in the new book The Big Con that management consultancies “infantilize” governments by keeping them dependent on their services.
Read: CNN
1 May 2023
The Guardian view on management consultants: overused, underperforming
Editorial: The omnipresence of consultancies is harming public services, while creating lucrative opportunities for private profit
Read: The Guardian
17 April 2023
How Capitalism WASTES Billions: Mariana Mazzucato's Tour De Force
Professor Mariana Mazzucato is one of the world's most exciting economic thinkers, and her new book - THE BIG CON - exposes how consultancy firms are eating up billions upon billions of pounds. You won't think of our economic system the same way again.
Watch: Owen Jones' YouTube channel
17 April 2023
Boganmeldelse: Skarp kritik af nålestribede konsulenter (Book review: Sharp criticism of pinstriped consultants)
Two tough female economists and experts in innovative thinking in the public sector come up with a paralysing criticism of the consulting industry in the book The Big Con. Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington from University College London believe that the big advisers, such as McKinsey, Boston Consulting, Deloitte and KPMG, generally do a poor job for both the public sector and private companies. They do not create added value commensurate with the advisors' enormous fees. Journalist Hugo Gaarden reviews the book.
Read: Økonomisk Ugebrev
17 April 2023
Mission-oriented industrial strategies for achieving the SDGs
Industrial strategies can steer the direction of growth towards well-defined goals.
Read: UNIDO IAP
11 April 2023
Una apuesta esperanzada por la heterodoxia (A hopeful commitment to heterodoxy)
Academics Michael Jacobs and Mariana Mazzucato review articles from world leaders to find non-traditional responses to the economic and democratic crises.
Read: Clarín
10 April 2023
A ten point plan for the World Bank President’s first 100 days
More than a hundred presidents, celebrities and economists have come together to propose a ten-point-plan to reform the World Bank and make it fit for the 21st Century.
Read: One
6 April 2023
Getting Drug Development Right
Recent cases of pharmaceutical companies jacking up the price of lifesaving vaccines confirms once again that we need a new approach to pharmaceutical innovation. Health-sector governance and public funding should be promoting collaboration and solidarity, not zero-sum competition and gatekeeping.
Read: Project Syndicate
5 April 2023
Magic Consultants - The Craft
Consultants miraculously turn around businesses and conjure up ideas. Adam Shaw asks why is this $billion industry so mysterious and should we really be in awe of their wizardry? Rosie Collington contributes.
Listen: BBC Radio 4
28 March 2023
Need a consultant? This book argues hiring one might actually damage your institution
Besuited jetsetters, armed with prestigious degrees and powerpoint slides, have infiltrated governments and corporations around the world. They claim to offer valuable expertise and fresh ideas. But don't be fooled!
Read: Planet Money
21 March 2023
Consultancies Have Been the Handmaidens of Neoliberalism
Corporate consulting firms like McKinsey attribute their industry’s success to its capacity to increase efficiency and add value to the economy. In fact, there isn’t a single major act of state or corporate malevolence in our lifetime free of the big consultancies’ fingerprints.
Read: Jacobin
20 March 2023
"Keinen Tropfen mehr zu verschenken" ("Not a drop left to give away")
The world has an extreme water problem, says Mariana Mazzucato, author of the first world water report. How do you still distribute drinking water fairly when it's getting scarce?
Read: Die Zeit
17 March 2023
Mariana Mazzucato on how governments can take back control of their contracts
How can the government attract the country’s best minds to work for them? How do we know when a private sector contract is a good one? And what can we learn from NASA about business and efficiency?
Listen: Ways to Change the World Podcast
17 March 2023
Confronting the Global Water Crisis
Water-related challenges – whether there is too much or too little, or whether it is dirty and unsafe – are already fueling chronic food and health insecurity in entire regions. To safeguard this most fundamental natural resource, we urgently need a new, global strategy to govern water for the common good.
Read: Project Syndicate
17 March 2023
Governments are increasingly reliant on consulting firms. Critics says it's often to their detriment
"Why are governments getting fooled? And why are governments continually hiring and outsourcing their own knowledge and activities to the consulting firms? Even after, in many cases, dreadful scams, mistakes and so on," Professor Mariana Mazzucato told ABC RN's The Money.
Read: ABC News
15 March 2023
How Consultants Mangle Government
Consulting firms may promise expertise and efficiency, but their effects on public agencies have been disastrous, Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington explain.
Read: The New Republic
14 March 2023
PS Commentators Respond: Can the US Rein in Big Tech?
In this Big Question, we ask Anu Bradford, Tim O’Reilly, Ilan Strauss, and Mariana Mazzucato, and Tommaso Valletti whether and how the US government can translate regulatory ambition into effective action.
Read: Project Syndicate
9 March 2023
'Bloomberg Surveillance: Early Edition' Full (03/07/23)
Bloomberg's Francine Lacqua interviews Mariana Mazzucato about her new book with Rosie Collington, The Big Con (watch from 8mins 40s)
Watch: Bloomberg TV
7 March 2023
Big Consulting’s New Con
ESG and sustainability are the latest manifestations of a tried-and-true strategy for the consulting industry.
Read: The American Prospect
6 March 2023
Newsnight - Could Corporation Tax rise harm the economy?
Mariana Mazzucato discusses tax and the UK economy with former chief secretary to the UK Treasury David Gauke and presenter Kirsty Wark (watch from 6mins 19s)
Watch: BBC 2
6 March 2023
PW Picks: Books of the Week, March 6, 2023
Our favorite books coming out this week include new titles from Theresa Runstedtler, Jenny Odell, and Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington.
Read: Publishers Weekly
3 March 2023
To succeed, Keir Starmer needs to be much more than “business friendly”
Labour should forge a new settlement that prioritises the common good over private profit.
Read: The New Statesman
3 March 2023
Falling house prices may seem like a good thing – but it’s renters who are paying the price
Josh Ryan-Collins: With first-time buyers unable to get a mortgage and landlords hiking up rents, it’s a vicious cycle
Read: The Guardian
3 March 2023
Consultants and the Crisis of Capitalism
Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington: McKinsey & Company’s many high-profile scandals are only the tip of the iceberg. The growing reliance on big consultancies with extractive business models is stunting state capacity and undermining democratic accountability at a time when we need governments to help transform our economies in the public interest.
Read: Project Syndicate
2 March 2023
UK ministers promised to kick the consultant habit but they can’t: they’re addicted – and we pay the price
Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington: While the axe falls on vital services across the country, a dependent Whitehall is still giving private consultants a blank cheque
Read: The Guardian
28 February 2023
The big consultancy con, with Mariana Mazzucato
Megan Gibson speaks to the economist and author Mariana Mazzucato, professor at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. The Big Con is her latest book, co-written with Rosie Collington, which exposes the consequences of governments’ dependency on consultancies such as McKinsey and Deloitte.
Listen: World Review from The New Statesman
27 February 2023
Economist explains why Britain's economy is set up to fail
Mariana Mazzucato speaks to Oli Dugmore from PoliticsJOE
Watch: PoliticsJOE YouTube channel
27 February 2023
Economist Explains How Government Wastes BILLIONS | Aaron meets Mariana Mazzucato
The management consultant industry is worth around a trillion dollars, yet few people on the street could discern exactly how that money is spent. Much of it is spent by governments with the UK leading the charge in contracting out a huge range of services to these huge, opaque companies. To discuss how we've ended up in this position, and what can be done about it, Aaron is joined by Mariana Mazzucato, co-author of 'The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies'.
Watch: Novara Media YouTube channel
26 February 2023
Reinventing public purpose
Sir Michael Marmot reviews The Big Con
Read: The Lancet
25 February 2023
Bad managers on brilliant pay: that’s why the UK’s not working
Productivity is much lower than in comparable countries, yet bosses just award themselves millions – and hire consultants
Read: The Observer
25 February 2023
Mariana Mazzucato: “Consultancies depend on weak governments”
The economist and author of The Big Con reflects on why capitalism is broken.
Read: New Statesman
22 February 2023
Calling the consultants’ bluff: The Big Con author on reining in the power of consulting firms
Rosie Collington is seeking to call the consulting sector’s bluff. The UCL researcher is on a mission to challenge the notion that “consultancies exist on the scale and scope they do today because they create value in the economy.”
Read: City A.M.
20 February 2023
The Big Con by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington: How consultants spoofed their way into everyone’s pockets
The Big Con is a shocking indictment of how, for decades, the consulting industry has made billions from public and private sources without providing much value for money. But it’s an equally damning verdict on those institutions that have handed over these fortunes.
Read: Irish Independent
18 February 2023
How consultancy infantilises governments: Mariana Mazzucato and Rory Sutherland in conversation
Mariana Mazzucato is a professor in the economics of innovation and public value at University College London. She speaks to The Spectator’s Wiki Man, Rory Sutherland, about the book she has co-authored with Rosie Collington, The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilises our Governments and Warps our Economies.
Read: The Spectator
18 February 2023
The Big Con by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington review — how consultants took over the world
The swollen consulting sector has its tentacles in every crevice of business and government. Something needs to change, says Ed Conway.
Read: The Times
18 February 2023
The Big Con review — time to cut out the consultants
We’re spending ever more on advice from firms such as KPMG, Deloitte and McKinsey — but they’re making government stupid.
Read: The Times
18 February 2023
The Big Con by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington review – how consultancy firms cash in
From Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy to Britain’s Covid contracts, the private firms taking over public life
Read: The Guardian
16 February 2023
The Big Con — the case against consultancies
Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington’s polemic on the need to draw a boundary between state and private activity — and rebuild public sector capability
Read: Financial Times
15 February 2023
How consultancy bleeds Britain dry
In The Big Con Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington reveal how management consultants promise to fix governments but end up enfeebling them
Read: New Statesman
14 February 2023
Mariana Mazzucato: ‘The McKinseys and the Deloittes have no expertise in the areas that they’re advising in’
The economist argues that consultants are hobbling the state’s ability to perform the role of economic motor.
Read: Financial Times
14 February 2023
Trillion-dollar con trick: advice that makes things worse
In an extract from their forthcoming exposé, the economists Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington argue that the consulting industry is weakening businesses and warping economies
Read: The Times
10 February 2023
Shoot for the moon
Mariana Mazzucato tells Chris Seekings why governments must take inspiration and courage from ‘moonshot’ projects when tackling the world’s greatest challenges.
Read: Transform Magazine
2 February 2023
A Long Way From Nuclear Fusion
Mariana Mazzucato on what governments get wrong about funding clean energy.
Read: Foreign Affairs
31 January 2023
For the Common Good
Tackling our biggest challenges and reversing the undue concentration of wealth and power will require a fundamental change in political economy. Currently, the principle of the common good is seen as merely a corrective for the current system’s excesses, but it should be the system's primary objective.
Read: Project Syndicate
27 January 2023
The books to read in 2023
FEBRUARY - The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments and Warps Our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington (Allen Lane) Leading progressive economist and her co-author investigate the damage — poor innovation, lack of accountability — brought about by the over-reliance of governments and companies on consultants.
Read: The Financial Times
9 January 2023
To stop water crises, the world must value water as a global common good
The current water crisis is damaging our environments and livelihoods. We urgently need to renew the way we value and manage water, collectively.
Read: The Bartlett Review 2022
9 January 2023
Publishers' Weekly review: The Big Con
"Among other direct and persuasive solutions, the authors suggest the enhancement of conflict of interest disclosure requirements and empowering public sector organizations “to take risks.” Doggedly researched and elegantly written, this is a fascinating entry point into a critical yet underreported issue."
Read: Publishers' Weekly
2 January 2023
2023 in books: highlights for the year ahead
February, nonfiction - The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments and Warps Our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington, Allen Lane: Political economists Mazzucato and Collington chart the inexorable rise of consulting, which thrives in an era of hollowed-out states and stripped-back firms.
Read: The Guardian
31 December 2022
Hatte Marx doch recht? (Was Marx right after all?)
Traditional capitalism no longer works. But driven by ever-new world crises and an impending climate collapse, concrete ideas for reform are emerging: less growth, more government targets. Mariana Mazzucato contributes to Der Spiegel's cover story.
Read: Der Spiegel
30 December 2022
AI in the Common Interest
Public policies and institutions should be designed to ensure that innovations are improving the world; but as matters stand, many technologies are being deployed in a vacuum, with advances in artificial intelligence raising one red flag after another. The era of light-touch self-regulation must end.
Read: Project Syndicate
26 December 2022
Building state capacity for a just energy transition
To maintain its credibility, the Just Transition Framework must be translated into meaningful action in 2023, including a sustained commitment to bold goals and investments to bolster government’s capabilities.
Read: Business Day
23 December 2022
Mariana Mazzucato: Unleash the state on the climate crisis
Mariana Mazzucato spoke to The Financial Times' Moral Money about states directing finance towards tackling climate change.
Read: The Financial Times
9 December 2022
Mariana without borders
What would it take to scale Mariana Mazzucato’s “mission thinking” to a global stage?
Read: Global Nation
6 December 2022
Rethinking the state
Can the public sector be a "sexy, edgy, crazy bureaucracy"? Highly respected economist and Professor at University College London, Mariana Mazzucato, thinks it's worth considering.
Listen: ABC Radio National
4 December 2022
Departmental budgets should align around core missions to set a purposeful direction of growth
The United Kingdom is in recession. The Autumn Budget reflected this sobering diagnosis of the country’s economic state and foreshadowed an Osbornesque turn to the austerity policies of the 2010s.
Read: The House
30 November 2022
Eko Prasojo pimpin UI dalam kolaborasi riset Islamic Public Values (Eko Prasojo leads UI in collaborative research on Islamic Public Values)
Professor of the Faculty of Administrative Sciences, University of Indonesia (FIA UI), Prof. Dr. Eko Prasojo, led the UI team in research collaboration in the field of Islamic Public Values to strengthen public services at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP).
Read: Antara News
29 November 2022
Industrial strategy demands a new deal with the private sector
Governments must approach these partnerships as an opportunity to maximise public value.
Read: Financial Times
27 November 2022
The World Is Still Failing at Pandemic Preparedness and Response
The G20 and international financial institutions still have not created a pandemic preparedness and response framework capable of managing the next global health crisis. Fortunately, some low- and middle-income countries are pioneering new models for filling the gaps.
Read: Project Syndicate
18 November 2022
Pope Francis: 'Three world wars in one century: be pacifists!'
"And now I have put Mariana Mazzucato in the Pontifical Academy for Life. She is a great economist from the United States, I put her there to give a little more humanity to it. Women carry their own, they don't have to become like males. No! they are women, we need them. And a society that erases women from public life is a society that impoverishes itself."
Read: Vatican News
6 November 2022
Mariana Mazzucato: “Se piensa mucho en redistribución, en lugar de creación del valor” (Mariana Mazzucato: "A lot is thought about redistribution, instead of creating value")
Mariana Mazzucato spoke to Jorge Fontevecchia about the Latin American economy and how to make capitalism work.
Read: Perfil
5 November 2022
The Entrepreneurial State Must Lead on Climate Change
As a much-touted green alliance of financial institutions crumbles, the private sector has once again proven unequal to the task of climate leadership. The global transition to a net-zero economy simply will not happen at the pace that is needed unless states embrace their proper role as a market maker and investor in public goods.
Read: Project Syndicate
4 November 2022
Mariana Mazzucato speaks on Andrew Marr's LBC show about UK interest rate rises
Mariana Mazzucato breaks down 'dysfunctionalities' in the economic system which should be tackled instead of 'punishing consumers and families' who already face high costs of living.
Listen: LBC
3 November 2022
Innovationspolitik: Wie Bürokratien Innovationen schaffen (Innovation policy: How bureaucracies create innovations)
"Innovation and public administration do not have to be mutually exclusive, quite the opposite," Rainer Kattel tells Ina Bierfreund.
Read: Tagesspiegel
3 November 2022
Mariana Mazzucato speaks to CNN in Chile
CNN Chile's Orlando Silva interviews Mariana Mazzucato about her visit to Chile and discusses how her economic ideas can be implemented in the country.
Watch: CNN Chile
2 November 2022
Las reservadas dos horas de Mazzucato en el Laboratorio de Gobierno del Ministerio de Hacienda (The reserved two hours of Mazzucato in the Government Laboratory of the Ministry of Finance)
The famous mission economist visited the Laboratorio de Gobierno, an agency of the Ministry of Finance, on Friday morning, where she congratulated the State for activating innovation policies.
Read: Ex-Ante
28 October 2022
Burla a la ciencia (Mock science)
Jorge Ivan Gonzalez' commentary on the concept of the Entrepreneurial State
Read: La Republica
28 October 2022
Mariana Mazzucato speaks to Alejandro Bercovich
A televised interview (in Spanish) on C5N in Argentina
Watch: C5N (via YouTube)
26 October 2022
Mazzucato elogió las misiones del plan Argentina Productiva 2030 (Mazzucato praised the missions of the Argentina Productiva 2030 plan)
The Secretary of Industry and Productive Development, José Ignacio de Mendiguren and the economist Mariana Mazzucato, met with the technical teams of the Plan Argentina Productiva 2030, which incorporates, they say, " unprecedented development concepts for a industrial plan in Latin America".
Read: El Economista
26 October 2022
Businesses call for nature impact disclosures to be mandatory by 2030
"Mandatory [nature impact] disclosures will only be effective in addressing biodiversity declines if they rapidly translate into transforming nature-depleting business models," says Katie Kedward.
Read: The Guardian
26 October 2022
New Missions for Latin America
Strategic clarity is needed now more than ever to face both the immediate cost-of-living crisis and the longer-term structural challenges facing Latin America and the Caribbean. Policymakers will need a new narrative that puts innovation-led growth and an empowered, capable state front and center, writes Mariana Mazzucato.
Read: Project Syndicate
24 October 2022
‘No creo en el no crecimiento’: Mariana Mazzucato ('I don't believe in non-growth': Mariana Mazzucato)
Mariana Mazzucato is the fashionable economist in Colombia and in the world. Exclusively for Forbes Colombia, she spoke about her vision for the global energy transition and analyzed the strategies of central banks to face a recession that, in her opinion, could become a depression.
Read: Forbes Colombia
22 October 2022
Trussonomics is dead, but not before laying a trap for Labour
The defeat of free market ideology will be worthless if it results in a fear of public spending and an unquestioning faith in the markets, writes Josh Ryan-Collins
Read: The Guardian
18 October 2022
'Truss likely to be toppled immediately,' says former UK Tory minister
Christiane Amanpour speaks with Rory Stewart, former UK Conservative minister, and Mariana Mazzucato, Professor at the University College London, on the latest market turmoil and political chaos in Britain.
Watch: CNN
17 October 2022
In UK fallout, lessons for a world facing harsh economic realities
On Friday, battered by savage criticism, she retreated. Truss fired her top finance official, Kwasi Kwarteng, for creating precisely the package of unfunded tax cuts, billion-dollar spending programs and deregulation that she had asked for.
Read: New York Times, via Indian Express
15 October 2022
Mariana Mazzucato: Mission-oriented institutions for the climate transition
Although global climate commitments are important, they will not amount to much without the institutional foundation that the transition to a zero-carbon economy needs.
Read: Labour Tribune MPS
11 October 2022
Reasons to be Cheerful with Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd
Josh Ryan-Collins makes the wider case for public wealth funds, and how they help governments invest for the future and make sure that returns go back to citizens.
Listen: Podfollow
10 October 2022
Rosie Collington speaks to Al Jazeera
:An interview on the impact of public services cuts on people's health and wellbeing
Watch: YouTube
5 October 2022
Toward a Progressive Economic Agenda
Past policy failures and unmet populist promises represent an opportunity for progressive leaders. But to win power, they must articulate a coherent alternative economic-policy program, focusing not only on redistribution but also on wealth and value creation. Professor Mariana Mazzucato explores this for Project Syndicate.
Read: Project Syndicate
5 October 2022
Liz Truss wants to inflict more austerity on Britain – but there’s nothing left to cut
Instead of merely ‘trimming the fat’ from the public sector, this government seems intent on sinking the welfare state entirely, writes Rosie Collington.
Read: The Guardian
4 October 2022
«Wir haben sehr träge Staatsapparate, die nicht in die eigenen Köpfe investieren, sondern alles an McKinsey auslagern» (“We have very sluggish state apparatuses that do not invest in their own talent, but instead outsource everything to McKinsey”)
Professor Mariana Mazzucato advocates a "mission economy": the state should set the direction for innovations. She accuses the private sector of only looking for short-term gains.
Read: Neue Zürcher Zeitung
4 October 2022
Asia and the Pacific’s Developing Countries Need a Mission to Move Forward
As the region recovers from the pandemic there is an opportunity to rethink how development is undertaken and to deploy mission-oriented approaches to policy making, writes Rainer Kattel, with Susann Roth.
Read: Asian Development Blog
28 September 2022
Josh Ryan-Collins reacts to the latest UK Government budget
"There's no academic evidence that cutting taxes for the rich boosts employment, investment or growth." Associate Professor Josh Ryan-Collins shared his thoughts during an interview on TalkTV.
Watch: TalkTV
26 September 2022
Transforming the Economics and Governance of Water
Water-related crises around the world have shown that current systems of governance and economic organisation are unsuited for a world altered by global warming. Professor Mariana Mazzucato, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Johan Rockström and Tharman Shanmugaratnam explore this topic in a Project Syndicate op-ed.
Read: Project Syndicate
21 September 2022
BBC Radio 4 Today Programme
Professor Mariana Mazzucato appears on BBC Radio 4 Today Programme to discuss the prospects of the UK 'mini' budget and why simplistic tax cuts will not induce growth, but simply increase inequality...again.
Listen: BBC Radio 4
20 September 2022
What Role Should Business Play in Society?
Professor Mariana Mazzucato explores this topic in a Harward Business Review article.
Read: Harvard Business Review
19 September 2022
Rewriting the Rules of Capitalism and Public Investment — with Mariana Mazzucato
Professor Mariana Mazzucato recently appeared on The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway.
Listen: The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
15 September 2022
Failing the Pandemic Preparedness Test
After significant advocacy by poorer countries and civil society, the G20’s pandemic-preparedness fund is being designed to embody a more equitable and balanced governance model. But without adequate funding and much larger additional investments in health systems, the new fund will become just another burdensome distraction. Professor Mariana Mazzucato explores this topic in a recent Project Syndicate article.
Read: Project Syndicate
15 September 2022
Green Energy: Some Inconvenient Truths
How is the world going to get to net zero by 2050 and who is paying the bill? Professor Mariana Mazzucato thinks labelling it as a bill we all have to pay is misleading.
Listen: BBC
31 August 2022
England housing strategy could consume over 100% of the nation’s carbon budget
Professor Josh Ryan-Collins with the team of researchers explore a range of policies that could help the Government to meet England’s housing needs without transgressing environmental limits
Read: Envirotec
23 August 2022
EP.185 - MARIANA MAZZUCATO
Professor Mariana Mazzucato recently appeared on a Adam Buxton podcast episode where she explored how capitalism fails and how it can be made to work better by 'reimagining the state'.
Listen: Adam Buxton
12 August 2022
The world needs governments to take more risks
The world needs governments to take more risks, according to Professor 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-19 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
