The Value of Everything

Making and Taking in the Global Economy

Recommended by Pia Mancini, and 1 others. See all reviews

Ranked #23 in Valuation, Ranked #34 in Microeconomicssee more rankings.

Modern economies reward activities that extract value rather than create it. This must change to insure a capitalism that works for us all.

In this scathing indictment of our current global financial system, The Value of Everything rigorously scrutinizes the way in which economic value has been determined and reveals how the difference between value creation and value extraction has become increasingly blurry. Mariana Mazzucato argues that this blurriness allowed certain actors in the economy to portray themselves as value creators, while in reality they were just...
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Pia Mancini @soulafloat @MazzucatoM @ValeriaLuiselli @MazzucatoM's one is great book! Super insightful. I'll add @ValeriaLuiselli to my list! Thank you (Source)


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