Mariana Mazzucato, economist

Desert Island Discs

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🗓️ 16 December 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Professor Mariana Mazzucato is an economist, who focuses on value and innovation. Born in Italy, Mariana moved to America as a child, when her father accepted a post at Princeton University. She has lived in the UK for the last 20 years and is currently Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value and the Director of the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College London. She examined how government funding has enabled highly profitable inventions in the private sector in her 2013 book The Entrepreneurial State. She advises policymakers around the world on how to deliver sustainable growth, and has also taken a particular interest in pricing and profit in the pharmaceutical industry. Earlier this year she published The Value of Everything, in which she argued that we need to re-think our ideas about how wealth is created in the global economy. In 2013 she was named as one of the 'three most important thinkers about innovation' by the New Republic. BOOK CHOICE: Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar LUXURY: One of her mother's handmade quilts CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Round Midnight by Thelonious Monk Presenter Lauren Laverne Producer Sarah Taylor

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.8	Hello, I'm Lauren LeVern and this is the Desert Island Disks Podcast.
0:08.4	Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks, book and luxury they'd want to take
0:13.2	with them if they were cast away to a desert island.
0:16.2	For right reasons, the music is shorter than the original broadcast.
0:20.4	I hope you enjoy listening.
0:30.0	Music Radio Music
0:42.8	Professor Mariana Matsukato is an economist.
0:46.2	She's the director of the University College London Institute for Innovation and Public
0:50.6	Purpose and the author of prize-winning books tackling the biggest questions in economics,
0:55.8	more than a few of which keep philosophers and creative types up at night too.
1:00.0	What is value?
1:01.3	Who controls it in our society and our economy?
1:04.6	Where does innovation originate?
1:07.0	Her proposals for a healthier economy are on a similar scale.
1:10.6	They include transforming the way we view the role of the state, a new approach to taxation
1:15.6	and reshaping the pharmaceutical industry.
1:18.4	So, the big stuff.
1:20.4	A public intellectual with an ever-increasing profile, she's captured the interest and
1:25.1	influenced the approach of politicians and industry leaders from around the world and across
1:30.2	the spectrum, though they may not always like what they hear.
1:34.2	She says, there are lots of wrong policies and wrong ways to run public institutions, but
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