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Mariana Mazzucato

Mariana Mazzucato is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL) where she is also Founder and Director of the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. She is author of the highly-acclaimed book The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths, and winner of the 2014 New Statesman SPERI Prize in Political Economy, the 2015 Hans-Matthöfer-Preis and the 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. She has advised policymakers around the world on how to deliver ‘smart’, inclusive and sustainable growth.  In 2013 she was named as one of the ‘3 most important thinkers about innovation’ in the New Republic.

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Articles about Mariana Mazzucato

• The Independent, September 5, 2017, Britain’s economy is 'broken' and failing to tackle inequality, says major new report

• Times Higher Education, March 2, 2017, Interview with Mariana Mazzucato

• Financial Times, August 14, 2015, Lunch with the FT: Mariana Mazzucato

• The New York Times, May 26, 2015, Government R&D, Private Profits and the American Taxpayer

• The Economist, August 31, 2014, The Entrepreneurial State

• The New York Review of Books, April 24, 2014, Innovation: The Government Was Crucial After All

• Financial Times, August 5, 2013, A Much-Maligned Engine of Innovation

Articles by Mariana Mazzucato

• The Guardian, September 9, 2017, After Irma, let those who use our tax havens contribute to the repairs

• The Guardian, June 18, 2017, Trump's infrastructure plan is a pillar of his agenda. It also isn't very smart

• Harvard Business Review, An Entrepreneurial Society Needs an Entrepreneurial State

• New Statesman, September 22, 2016, New Times: Mariana Mazzucato on why it's time for progressives to rethink capitalism

• Financial Times, August 3, 2016, A Strong Industrial Strategy Has Many Benefits

• Project Syndicate, March 10, 2016, A State Powered Green Revolution

• Los Angeles Times, October 27, 2015, How Taxpayers Prop Up Big Pharma, and How to Cap That