The Entrepreneurial State, Mariana Mazzucato
The Entrepreneurial State, Mariana Mazzucato
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The Entrepreneurial State
Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths

Author: Mariana Mazzucato

Narrator: Callie Beaulieu

Unabridged: 9 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/25/2019


Synopsis

The world's most popular products, from the iPhone to Google Search, were funded not by private companies, but the taxpayer.

In this sharp and controversial international bestseller, an award-winning economist debunks the pervasive myth that the government is sluggish and inept, and at odds with a dynamic private sector. She reveals in detailed case studies that the opposite is true: the state is, and has been, our boldest and most valuable innovator. Denying this history is leading us down the wrong path. A select few get credit for what is an intensely collective effort, and the U.S. government has started disinvesting from innovation. The repercussions could stunt economic growth and increase inequality. Mazzucato teaches us how to reverse this trend before it is too late.

About Mariana Mazzucato

Mariana Mazzucato holds the RM Phillips chair in the Economics of Innovation at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) of the University of Sussex. She is the author of The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ben

Check out the one-star reviews for this work and you'll quickly get an idea of why it is so very, very good. (G)libertarians and free-marketeers are hyperventilating as Mazzucato Mariana surgically dissects their treasured myths about the desirability of a small and feeble State and the power and dy......more

Goodreads review by Herve

I have been very much impressed by the Entrepreneurial State but I also have some major doubts and even some disagreements. Maybe I have been brain-washed in the last 20 years of my life but my experience in Silicon Valley and venture capital and also my less than satisfying experience with planned......more

Goodreads review by Julian

This is a book whose contents should change people's views of the state as a bureaucratic apparatus at odds with a dynamic private sector. State funding has allowed key research that provided the basis for the Internet, Microsoft Windows, Stealth Fighters, GPS, and the screens found on almost smartp......more

Goodreads review by Agnès

A really interesting essay about innovation, the role of the State and the myths surrounding the risk-taking in the private sector, venture-capital (VC) or SMEs. Studying how Apple built its innovative products using State-financed innovation, or how Big Pharma is only expanding the existing public-......more

Goodreads review by Athan

Could not be reading this book at a more appropriate time. Last week Merck announced they are firing some 7.500 scientists. This week it's Alcatel firing another 5,000. That's not any company, Alcatel, it's owned by Lucent, previously known as Bell Labs. One of the main theses of the book is that bus......more