Mariana Mazzucato

Mariana Mazzucato

Mariana Mazzucato is a professor of economics of innovation and public value at University College London and founding director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. She has chaired the World Health Organization’s Council on the Economics of Health For All.

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Why Keir Starmer should adopt peace as an strategic economic mission

Growth alone is not a moral mission. For Keir Starmer's government, making peace - not GDP - the organising principle could align values, stability and prosperity

Updated On: 19 Dec 2025 | 11:15 PM IST

Bill Gates' pivot away from bold climate action misses key challenges

To find our way back to shore, we urgently need a new financial architecture that can provide the policy and fiscal space to support implementation and build state capacity

Updated On: 14 Nov 2025 | 11:01 PM IST

Economic shortsightedness is jeopardising Italy's G7 ambitions

In the 1990s, Italy initiated the largest privatisation programme in continental Europe, dismantling much of its industrial backbone instead of fostering innovation

Updated On: 14 Jun 2024 | 11:10 PM IST

Central banks in a cashless world

A central bank can serve as more than just a regulator, by influencing or even creating shared infrastructure

Updated On: 27 Apr 2024 | 12:34 AM IST

How to save the pandemic treaty

As countries cavil over specific clauses in a draft pandemic treaty, there is good reason to fear that the document will be whittled down so much that it becomes useless

Updated On: 27 Mar 2024 | 9:44 PM IST

A progressive green growth narrative

For the green initiative to get off the ground, voters first need to be convinced that such investments are socially beneficial

Updated On: 25 Jan 2024 | 10:12 PM IST

No alternative to green industrial strategy

Sustainable growth requires an industrial policy that prioritises outcomes like clean growth and healthy ageing, moving away from the traditional focus on sectors

Updated On: 22 Dec 2023 | 10:14 PM IST

Rethinking growth

The economy will not grow in a socially desirable direction on its own

Updated On: 04 Sep 2023 | 10:21 PM IST

How G7 could help the debt-distressed

This small and wealthy group with its outsize power is uniquely positioned to help low-income countries manage deteriorating macroeconomic conditions

Updated On: 24 Jun 2022 | 10:54 PM IST

A new global economic consensus

A paradigm shift in policy-making is underway, but its success depends on concrete reforms and the creation of new mission-driven institutions

Updated On: 18 Oct 2021 | 11:58 PM IST

Mission-driven localities

Through local taxation, wealth funds can be created, with the returns reinvested in the community

Updated On: 29 Jul 2021 | 10:14 PM IST

Build back the state

Vaccine rollout in US - and even more so in Europe - shows that it is just as important to get the details of public-private partnerships right as it is to start with an ambitious overall objective

Updated On: 21 Apr 2021 | 2:22 AM IST

Building back worse

The UK urgently needs a dynamic, entrepreneurial mission-setting state to confront the triple crisis of Covid-19, rising inequality, and climate change

Updated On: 24 Mar 2021 | 2:49 AM IST