Mariana Mazzucato

About Mariana Mazzucato

Mariana Francesca Mazzucato (born June 16, 1968) is an Italian-American economist and academic. She is a professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL) and founding director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP). She is best known for her work on dynamics of technological change, the role of the public sector in innovation (including modern “mission-oriented” policies), and the concept of value in economics. The New Republic have called her one of the "most important thinkers about innovation". Mazzucato has published widely in the fields of innovation economics, value theory and political economy, and more recently on climate change and the triple planetary crisis. She is the author of various books, including The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths, The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy, and Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism.