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The Value of Everything

By Mariana Mazzucato

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The Value of Everything

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
384
Release Date:
2018-04-26
Publication Date:
2018-04-26
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0241347793
ISBN13:
9780241347799
Weight:
464 g
Height:
151 cm
Width:
233 cm
Thickness:
32 cm
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