Mariana Mazzucato Quotes
Fixing markets isn't enough. We have to actively shape and create them and tilt the playing field in the direction of the growth we want.
Mazzucato, Mariana. "I'm Mariana Mazzucato, I study the economics of innovation, and why we need to rethink capitalism. AMA!" Reddit, 7 Feb. 2017.
Hubbard is one of the few 21st century Republican economists who was concerned about lower- and middle-class earnings, and one of the very few who ever advocated increasing government spending at all, much less for this purpose. In the 1950s to the 1970s, this was a common view of many Republican economists and politicians, but in the next 40 years, the Republican party moved away from its Lincoln and liberal traditions, and even became the party of choice for racists.
Europe was still suffering from the economic effects of the Great Recession.
In the most rapid and largest growth of an economy was achieved in the late 1980s, and they managed to do it by maintaining total political control and economic control of the large, critical areas to the degree that any government can control economies.
Mariana Mazzucato is an economist with dual Italian–US citizenship. She is a professor at University College London in Economics of Innovation and Public Value and she is the founder and director of their Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP). Her research focuses on the relationships between technological, economic and social changes. She is a member of the Scottish Government's Council of Economic Advisers and South Africa's Economic Advisory Council. In 2019, she joined the UN Committee for Development Policy.