The Value of Everything
Who Makes and Who Takes from the Real Economy

Capitalism has a problem - and that is to confuse price with value. So not only we think a $6 apple must be nicer than a $2 one, we also think that someone earning $100k must be better than one earning $60k etc. Firms are also told to only maximise shareholder returns (a.k.a. ever lower Price/earnin......more

Mazzucato's observations and conclusions won't surprise readers who've read more than one or two works of contemporary critical theory. But the fact that she is writing in a different register and for a largely different audience matters a great deal in this case, and I found the book very rewarding......more

A very disappointing book. Since it was billed as a refreshing alternative to free market capitalism, I was excited to see an academic take on what sustainable left-leaning policies look like, rather than the typical left-wing media take that relies heavily on moral obligations but fails to offer pr......more

One of the best economics books I’ve ever read. I’ve read a mountain of economics books, at least over 50, and this is easily top ten. In The Value of Everything, the author takes you from the history of economics of how value was defined and how it has become deranged today into an enormous financia......more

Mariana is a post Keynesian, hence relies on observations of actual economic behaviour rather than doctrine and illogical theoretical assumptions (as did Keynes in his writings) and some of this book follows Keynes' discussions in his General Theory. She debunks the classicists in a comparable fashi......more