6 Posts found for Author: Mariana Mazzucato

Dysfunctions … occur when we don’t debate value — when [value is] just presented as “this is how the economy works.” So it becomes very easy for some actors in the economy to present themselves as value creators, and in the process extract value, because the difference — what’s value creation, what’s value extraction — is no longer part of the way we think about … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Mariana Mazzucato | Source: strategy+business | Subject: Economics

The twin problems I see in modern-day capitalism are the fact that the financial sector is financing itself and industry itself has become financialized, obsessed with short-term quarterly returns. To change that system, you need to debunk the pillars on which those behaviors are based. The problem with the maximization of shareholder value approach is that it has dismissed the role of other actors in … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Mariana Mazzucato | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Capitalism, Economics

Value in capitalism has fundamentally been created collectively through different types of actors coming together to solve problems. Workers have contributed. The state has contributed. Of course managers and people on the ground have contributed, but we need a body of thought within economics that really captures that collective value creation.

Maximization of shareholder value is a very narrow approach to understanding value. Indeed, it is … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Mariana Mazzucato | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Capitalism, Economics

As soon as you take innovation seriously, you start having to throw up in the air so many of the things we learn in mainstream economics: unique equilibria, representative agents, perfect competition. Indeed, the mathematics that we’re taught in mainstream economics departments mainly comes from Newtonian physics. It allows nice, smooth curves to be drawn where there is a maximum point (important if firms are … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Mariana Mazzucato | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Economics, Innovation

Economist Mariana Mazzucato explains how solving society’s toughest problems starts with rethinking how value is created and innovation is incentivized.

Content: Thought Leader | Authors: Deborah Unger, Mariana Mazzucato | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Capitalism, Economics

Mariana Mazzucato has demonstrated that the real driver of innovation isn’t lone geniuses but state investment. Now she’s working with the UK government, EU and UN to apply her moonshot approach to the world’s biggest challenges.

Editor’s Note: Mazzucato also has a couple of interesting TED talks, including this one:

Content: Article, Multimedia Content | Authors: João Medeiros, Mariana Mazzucato | Source: Wired | Subjects: Capitalism, Economics