Mariana Mazzucato
Mariana Mazzucato is an economist and professor at University College London, where she directs the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. She is best known for her influential work challenging conventional thinking about innovation, arguing that the state has historically been a key entrepreneurial risk-taker behind major technological breakthroughs.
Works
- The Entrepreneurial StateArgument that government innovation drives economic growth and entrepreneurship
- The Value of EverythingCritical analysis of economic value creation and distribution in capitalism
- Mission EconomyFramework for organizing economies around ambitious societal missions
- The Big ConExamination of how confidence tricks and scams damage trust in capitalism