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Economist, Innovation Scholar

Mariana Mazzucato

Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. Specializes in the political economy of technological development and public sector investment. Her work challenges the myth that private markets drive innovation while governments merely manage decline.

Known For

The Entrepreneurial State frameworkDocumenting public sector's role in Silicon ValleyMission economy conceptCritiquing consultant influence on governmentValue theory and distribution

Canon

Books

The Entrepreneurial State(2013)
The Value of Everything(2018)
Mission Economy(2021)

Episodes