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This timely investigation into the powerful consulting industry highlights the need for change in the entrenched relationship between consulting firms and the management of business and government. Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington reveal how reliance on major companies like McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, and Deloitte stifles innovation, obscures accountability, and hampers efforts to combat climate change. The authors describe the "Big Con," a confidence trick that exploits risk-averse governments and profit-driven firms, rooted in the neoliberal reforms of the 1980s and 1990s. This phenomenon thrives on the challenges of modern capitalism, including financialization and privatization, and is facilitated by the extensive influence of consultancies, which position themselves as objective experts. Ultimately, the Big Con undermines businesses, infantilizes governments, and distorts economies. Through compelling case studies, including the failures of HealthCare.gov and inadequate pandemic responses, Mazzucato and Collington expose the detrimental impact of consulting practices. Their rigorous scholarship and original research advocate for a new system where public and private sectors collaborate innovatively for the common good, offering an exhilarating intellectual journey into the core of the modern economy.

An entrenched relationship exists between the consulting industry and the management of business and government, which needs to change. Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington reveal how reliance on firms like McKinsey and Deloitte stifles innovation, obscures accountability, and hinders efforts to combat climate change. The 'Big Con' illustrates the confidence trick played by the consulting industry on risk-averse governments and profit-driven companies. Emerging from the reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, it thrives on modern capitalism's challenges, including financialization and privatization. This situation is fueled by the significant power that large consultancies hold through extensive contracts and networks, presenting themselves as objective experts. Additionally, top graduates are often diverted from public service into consulting roles, further weakening governments and distorting economies. Mazzucato and Collington effectively debunk the myth that consultancies consistently add value. Through original research, they advocate for investment in collective intelligence within organizations and communities, calling for a new system where public and private sectors collaborate for the common good. It is crucial to recalibrate the role of consultants to create economies and governments that truly serve their purposes.

Es gab Zeiten, da haben Berater einfach Firmen beraten, heute steuern sie in vielen Ländern die Regierungsgeschäfte und beeinflussen die Gesetzgebung. Das Outsourcing von staatlichen Aufgaben hat exorbitant zugenommen, Unsummen an Steuergeldern fließen in die Consulting-Industrie. Ein undurchschaubares System von Verträgen ist entstanden und macht die Frage nach Verantwortlichkeiten kompliziert. Dies ist eine sehr gefährliche Entwicklung, sagt Starökonomin Mariana Mazzucato: Je mehr der Staat an Ressourcen und Wissen verliert, umso mehr verlernt er, seine eigenen Aufgaben zu erfüllen. Gemeinsam mit Rosie Collington enthüllt sie das ganze Ausmaß der Machtverschiebung, legt die Abhängigkeiten offen und zeigt, wie der öffentliche Sektor und damit unsere Demokratie wieder gestärkt werden können.

Was wäre, wenn die gleiche Innovationskraft, die vor 50 Jahren die Menschheit auf den Mond brachte - die große Ziele setzt und ebensolche Risiken eingeht – auch auf die Herausforderungen unserer Gegenwart angewendet würde? Wir müssen weg vom Schubladendenken, nach dem der Staat das Geld gibt und die Privatwirtschaft kreativ ist, sagt die Starökonomin Mariana Mazzucato. Stattdessen müssen wir sicherstellen, dass Unternehmen, Gesellschaft und Regierung ein gemeinsames Ziel ins Auge fassen – mit geteiltem Risiko und geteilter Belohnung! Mazzucatos Zukunftsformel ist radikal, aber dank ihr können wir dem Klimawandel, der Ungleichheit oder bedrohlichen Krankheiten entgegentreten. »Mariana Mazzucato bietet etwas, das sowohl breit gefächert als auch pointiert ist: eine fesselnde neue Geschichte darüber, wie man eine wünschenswerte Zukunft schaffen kann.« New York Times

How governments can spur growth and innovation to solve their greatest challenges—from green energy to national security to building resilient health systems.Known around the world for challenging mainstream economics, economist Mariana Mazzucato believes, as the Financial Times writes, that “the public sector can and should be a cocreator of wealth that actively steers growth to meet its goals.” In Public Purppse, she calls on governments to create the economies we need today.Mazzucato's challenge leads off a debate on the revival of industrial policy—roughly defined as deliberate government action to re(shape) the economy. Industrial policy has fallen out of favor in recent decades as economists defer to free markets to produce innovation and growth. Yet today, thinkers across the political spectrum have begun expressing new interest in industrial policy as a way to address the most serious problems of our times: from national security and climate change, to the market's underfunding of public goods, to sluggish economic growth and labor market dysfunction.Public Purpose makes a compelling case for industrial policy—what it is, and why we need it now. Addressing investment, innovation, supply chains, and growth, it provides a robust vision of a renewed industrial policy, and what it can offer the US economy in the face of climate change and a global pandemic.

The extraordinary efforts that took mankind to the moon 50 years ago were more than a scientific feat of aeronautics. They required new forms of collaboration between the public sector (notably, NASA) and private companies. This book asks- what if the same level of boldness - the boldness that set inspirational goals, took risks and explicitly recognized that this requires large spending but will be worthwhile in terms of long-term growth - was applied to the biggest problems of our time, climate change, disease and inequality, to name only a few? Mariana Mazzucato argues that applying innovation to societal goals and structuring government budgets more explicitly to the long-term, as the moon programme did, we can do government differently.

Wir leben in einem parasitären System. Darin ist die schnelle Mitnahme von Gewinn, Shareholderdividenden und Bankerboni attraktiver als das Schaffen von Wert, als der produktive Prozess, der eine gesunde Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft antreibt. Wir verwechseln die Schöpfer mit den Abschöpfern und haben den Blick dafür verloren, was wirklich Wohlstand schafft. Die renommierte amerikanisch-italienische Ökonomin Mariana Mazzucato stellt in ihrem neuen Buch die für die Veränderung unseres Wirtschaftssystems entscheidende Frage: Wer schöpft Werte und wer zerstört sie? Im Kern geht es darum, in welcher Welt wir eigentlich leben wollen. Wir brauchen einen neuen Kapitalismus, von dem alle etwas haben! „Eine Ökonomin entzieht der Businesselite die Lizenz zum Auftrumpfen.“ manager magazin

A scathing indictment of our current global financial system, 'The Value of Everything' rigorously scrutinizes the way in which economic value has been accounted and reveals how economic theory has failed to clearly delineate the difference between value creation and value extraction. Mariana Mazzucato argues that the increasingly blurry distinction between the two categories has allowed certain actors in the economy to portray themselves as value creators, while in reality they are just moving around existing value or, even worse, destroying it.

"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"--