What is economic value, and who creates it? | Mariana Mazzucato

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Where does wealth come from, who creates it and what destroys it? In this deep dive into global economics, Mariana Mazzucato explains how we lost sight of what value means and why we need to rethink our current financial systems — so capitalism can be steered toward a bold, innovative and sustainable future that works for all of us.

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25 Comments on What is economic value, and who creates it? | Mariana Mazzucato

  1. What are stratospheric aerosol injections, and who creates them? How about a topic that’s killing the biosphere, us included…

  2. When you are a professional academic economist you have the purchasing power to buy larger t-shirts, unless you have inflation.

  3. “What is economic value, and who creates it?” –That would be the people who actually work for a living, with their brains and hands.

    • I dont think you understand the problem. What about the work of millionaire managers and such? Are they worth this much more than a normal worker or why are these people able to earn this much money with their work. Is their objective value and why is it not optimized and measurable by the ways of capitalism? I get your point, but it just doesnt help the discussion.

    • People who do not creat wealth:
      1) People who work for churches in any way.
      2) lawyers and bureaucrats.
      3) military.
      4) artists and musicians.

      Feel free to expend on the list

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