Mariana Mazzucato
@mazzucatom
Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London. Author: Entrepreneurial State, Value of Everything, Mission Economy, Big Con. Founding Director UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose www.marianamazzucato.com
On his first morning as PM, Andy Burnham backed a national rough-sleeping pledge with £340m and the 'Housing First' model he ran in Manchester.
Good to meet President Bernardo Arévalo, Finance Minister Jonathan Menkos an&d Ana Glenda Tager, Private Secretary to the President, in Guatemala City. We discussed how the state can shape investment not just attract it & why capable institutions are precondition for inclusive lasting growth.
The question being asked here is a different one: not how to grow faster, but how to grow with direction, and for whom.
A rich discussion today at the National Palace of Culture with ministers and advisers on Guatemala's National Dialogue for Productive, Inclusive and Sustainable Development. I came to listen.
New policy brief, co-authored with Sam Fleischman, Anna Hope Emerson, and Lara Merling, where we look at the social costs of misdirected capital and what to do about it. Read the brief co-launched with ETUC ➡️ www.etuc.org/en/document/...
On BBC Newsnight tonight at 23:10 BST talking about my new book, The Common Good Economy. Watch tonight on iPlayer or live on BBC Two ➡️ www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/guid...
New IIPP paper published today as part of our Public Value of Arts and Culture research, ahead of tomorrow's International Seminar on Culture and Climate Change at Somerset House, hosted by the Ministry of Culture of Brazil during London Climate Action Week. www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
School meals are not welfare. They are green industrial strategy on a plate. Today at UCL IIPP with Jatai we launched new case studies from Brazil, Sweden and Scotland showing what happens when school meal procurement is designed as a mission-oriented tool for food systems transformation.
What an evening at EartHackney for Novara Media Downstream IRL. Great to discuss my new book, The Common Good Economy, with Ash Sarkar: how missions became a slogan rather than a governing architecture, why we need a compass, & what it takes to build an economy where value is collectively created.
Read our report A Mission-Oriented Approach to School Meals, and three case studies: Brazil, Scotland, Sweden: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
On 24 June, join us at UCL IIPP for an event on "Feeding the Future: School Meals as a Lever for Food Systems Transformation", in collaboration with Instituto Jataí.
The Common Good Economy: a new compass marianamazzucato.com/books/the-co...
Had we evaluated the Apollo programme by each individual project's cost-benefit ratio, we would have concluded it was a failure. The value emerged at the portfolio level–across sectors, over time, through spillovers no one predicted.
Transformative mission-oriented policies aim to direct public action towards societal missions. Yet conventional evaluation frameworks struggle to capture these systemic objectives.
Govts increasingly frame procurement as a climate tool. But most miss the opportunity to leverage procurement for genuine transformative market-shaping potential. My new working paper with Anna Hope Emerson, outlines a mission-oriented approach ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
Join me this evening for my book talk on The Common Good Economy: a new compass. Honoured to be joined on stage by Lord Victor Adebowale CBE. Hybrid | 16 June | 18:00 – 19:30 | Register: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...
The IIPP Forum 2026: Rethinking the State begins today at Senate House. Two days on state capabilities, mission-oriented policy and economics of the common good––from city governments to green industrial strategy to the future of public finance. More on the Forum: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
Spoke at #LSEFestival today about my new book, The Common Good Economy. Thank you to Larry Kramer and the audience for their incisive questions.
All these sexy words like open innovation, collective intelligence, problem-oriented this, that, the other--that assumes we know how to work together. But if I don't value you, I'm probably not going to work very well with you.
We talk about doing good all the time: on inequality, inclusive growth, climate, health. So why do we fail along the way? Because economics lacks a coherent theory of the common good.
Launched The Common Good Economy: a new compass at How To Academy in the beautiful St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London.
On Channel 4 News this evening discussing my new book, The Common Good Economy. The crises we face—from the climate, water, and biodiversity crises to health and digital inequalities—are not isolated market failures. They are the product of an economic system organised around the wrong assumptions.
We can't do 'good' in the economy, without a theory of what 'good' looks like. The how matters as much as the what. How we relate to each other, how we value each other, how we work together, how we govern our economy are not secondary questions. They define if we actually reach collective goals.
Heated debate with Zanny Minton Beddoes at Hay Festival yesterday on my new book The Common Good Economy. Pre-order ➡️ www.penguin.co.uk/books/464576...
At @hayfestival today with @zannymb discussing my new book, The Common Good Economy. Today | 14:30 | Discovery Stage | Hay Festival | Pre-order the book: www.penguin.co.uk/books/464576...
We can't do good in the economy without a new economic theory of what good is. Everything else follows from this. In the old economics, doing good is a correction. In an economics of the common good, it is an objective we design and work on together.
Great to meet Margrethe Vestager at #PhileaForum in Copenhagen—the woman who took on Big Tech and won. Her decade as EU Competition Commissioner proved that markets left ungoverned do not self-correct, they concentrate power.
Out 4 June. Launch events at: Hay Festival: www.hayfestival.com/p-25172-mari... How To Academy: howtoacademy.com/events/maria... LSE: www.lse.ac.uk/events/lse-f... UCL IIPP Forum: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
The discussion on British Steel is missing the point. It is not about nationalisation versus privatisation. It is about whether the state can govern in the public interest — with direction, conditionalities, and the institutional capacity to transform a sector rather than simply keep it alive.