Mariana Mazzucato, PhD

Professor, University College London | Author, "Mission Economy"
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Mariana Mazzucato is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value atUniversity College London, where she is Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose (IIPP). Her previous posts include the RM Phillips Professorial Chair at the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University.

She is winner of international prizes including the Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana in 2021, Italy's highest civilian honor, the 2020John von Neumann Award, the 2019 All European Academies Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values, and the 2018 LeontiefPrize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. Most recently, Pope Francis appointed her to the Pontifical Academy for Life for bringing ‘more humanity’ to the world.

She is the author of The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths (2013), The Value of Everything: making and taking in the global economy(2018), Mission Economy: a moonshot guide to changing capitalism (2021) and The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies(2023).

She advises policy makers around the world on innovation-led inclusive and sustainable growth. Her roles have included for example Chair of the World Health Organization's Council on the Economics of Health for All,Co-Chair of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water,Co-Chair on the Council on Urban Initiatives, and a member of the South African President’s Economic Advisory Council. Previously, through her role as Special Advisor for the EC Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation (2017-2019), she authored the high-impact report on Mission-OrientedResearch and Innovation in the European Union, turning “missions” into a crucial new instrument in the European Commission’s Horizon innovation program, and more recently, authored a report with the UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on Transformational Change in Latin America and the Caribbean: A mission-oriented approach.

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Mariana Mazzucato on Mission Oriented Economies
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The Entrepreneurial State in Action: 10 Year Anniversary Celebration
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Economist critiques Labour and Tory economic policies
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Mariana Mazzucato on Founding the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
Mariana Mazzucato, PhD
WHO Council on the Economics of #HealthForAll
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Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism | 5x15
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What is economic value, and who created it? | TED2019
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The COVID-19 crisis is a chance to do capitalism differently | TED2020
Mariana Mazzucato, PhD

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How to Save the Pandemic Treaty
Project Syndicate
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Mazzucato’s mission for Australian innovation
InnovationAus
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Governments Must Shape AI’s Future
Project Syndicate
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Chalmers gets a face-to-face with his favourite economist
Financial Review
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Economist Mariana Mazzucato on how to fix capitalism
The Saturday Paper
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The Algorithm and Its Discontents
Project Syndicate
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Mission Critical Programme Launch: Missions-driven Government for 21st Century Public Service
Future Governance Forum
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Latin America’s private sector is failing the region, economist Mazzucato warns
Financial Times
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How to Make the Green Economy a Just Economy
Foreign Affairs
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A Progressive Green Growth Narrative
Project Syndicate
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VIDEO: Are the Financial Risks of Climate Change Under-Priced? Panel at World Economic Forum 2024
World Economic Forum
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UCL joins world leaders at WEF 2024
UCL News
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There Is No Alternative to Green Industrial Strategy
Project Syndicate
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Water is vital to climate and nature protection. Will it last?
Context
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Water and the High Price of Bad Economics
Project Syndicate
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We won’t tackle the climate crisis unless we transform the financing
Financial Times
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Algorithmic Attention Rents: A theory of digital platform market power
UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
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Auto Strikes and Climate Change
Project Syndicate
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Sunak’s Tories, Starmer’s Labour: Britain is stuck in a doom loop of failed economics. Here’s the way out
The Guardian
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ARPA-H Could Offer Taxpayers a Fairer Shake
Issues in Science and Technology
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Rethinking Growth and Revisiting the Entrepreneurial State
Project Syndicate
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Meet Mariana Mazzucato, the economist influencing the treasurer
Financial Review
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Water for sustainable development
Nature
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What Local Governments Need to Lead
Project Syndicate
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Best summer books of 2023: Business
Financial Times
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The AI Apocalypse?
Project Syndicate
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The pope's economist
La Croix International
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Preparing for the next pandemic will take a global commitment
Financial Times
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Running out of battery: how post-Brexit Britain is failing to set up a future-focused economy
The Guardian
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Consultancies are coming off a pandemic boom. Are they still worth hiring?
CNN
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Financing the Common good
Project Syndicate
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Getting Drug Development Right
Project Syndicate
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Why we need a new economics of water as a common good
Nature
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Big Consulting's New Con
The American Prospect
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Consultants and the Crisis of Capitalism
Project Syndicate
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The biggest problem we have today is inertia'
Prospect Magazine
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UK ministers promised to kick the consultant habit but they can't: they're addicted - and we pay the price
The Guardian
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The Big Con - how consultsancy firms cash in
The Guardian
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Mariana Mazzucato: ‘The McKinseys and the Deloittes have no expertise in the areas that they’re advising in’
Financial Times
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A Long Way From Nuclear
Foreign Affairs
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Unlocking Health Technology's Potential for All
Project Syndicate

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