Mariana Mazzucato’s ideas have changed how governments see their role in the economy – but where do we go from here?
Regular listeners will have heard the economist Mariana Mazzucato on this podcast before — with George the Poet on modern-day moonshot programmes to can transform the economy, and with journalist Kamal Ahmed and economist Rosie Collington with a searing critique of the consulting industry. She recently returned to How To Academy to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the groundbreaking book that launched her career in the public eye – The Entrepreneurial State. The book that makes the compelling case that the state is not a bureaucratic machine standing in the way of progress, but a powerful force for innovation. What does that mean for the world in 2024 and the decades to come? She joined Hannah MacInnes to tell us more.
