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The Value of Everything

Makers and Takers in the Global Economy

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The Value of Everything

Written by: Mariana Mazzucato
Narrated by: Amy Finegan
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Value of Everything by Mariana Mazzucato, read by Amy Finegan.

Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? At the heart of today's financial and economic crisis is a problem hiding in plain sight.


In modern capitalism, value-extraction is rewarded more highly than value-creation: the productive process that drives a healthy economy and society. From companies driven solely to maximize shareholder value to astronomically high prices of medicines justified through big pharma's 'value pricing', we misidentify taking with making, and have lost sight of what value really means. Once a central plank of economic thought, this concept of value - what it is, why it matters to us - is simply no longer discussed.

Yet, argues Mariana Mazzucato in this penetrating and passionate new book, if we are to reform capitalism - radically to transform an increasingly sick system rather than continue feeding it - we urgently need to rethink where wealth comes from. Which activities create it, which extract it, which destroy it? Answers to these questions are key if we want to replace the current parasitic system with a type of capitalism that is more sustainable, more symbiotic - that works for us all. The Value of Everything will reignite a long-needed debate about the kind of world we really want to live in.

©2018 Mariana Mazzucato (P)2018 Penguin Audio
Economics Theory

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A stimulating analysis of the underlying causes of inequality and growth which forces us to confront long-held beliefs about how economies work and who benefits. ... The book itself adds value by forcing us to confront these points. (Martin Wolf)
Someone should make a musical out of this book. That is quite unlikely, I grant you, but not as unlikely as it sounds. In 1893 the Savoy theatre staged Gilbert and Sullivan's penultimate operetta, Utopia, Limited ... It is time to rework the idea and Mariana Mazzucato is a candidate to write the libretto. (Philip Collins)
As Mariana Mazzucuto's new book, published today, explains, our economy has been financialised and no longer rewards real value creation. (Chi Onwurah)
Mariana Mazzucato ... argues that we urgently need to rethink where wealth comes from to heal a sick system. (Richard Kilgarriff)
Mariana Mazzucato offers an exposé of how value extractors and rent-seekers have been masquerading as value creators in the global economy. And, furthermore, how the conventional wisdom has indulged them in this. (Fran Boait)
In The Value of Everything, published last week, Mazzucato sharpens her focus, not only lauding the role of 'mission-oriented' public investment, but honing her critique of the private sector too. (Liam Halligan)

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The definition of value and taking us through the journey of economic thought

There seems to be a certain fixation for government spending and against pharmaceutical and IT industries. Some of the criticism is well deserved but it is wrong to classify them as value extractors

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Fantastic narration of an incredible book.

It's long read at 11+ hrs at normal speed but worth every minute. I have been meaning to read the book for the last couple of years but never really got the time. The narration is clear and superb, and the scholarship incredible. Mariana Mazzucato is a super star economist and one of the most sane voices of the current generation of economics.

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