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The Value of Everything

Who Makes and Who Takes from the Real Economy

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The Value of Everything

By: Mariana Mazzucato
Narrated by: Randye Kaye
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The Value of Everything argues that American companies have for too long been valued according to the amount of wealth they capture for themselves rather than for the value they create for the economy. In fact, Pfizer, Amazon, and other companies are actually dependent on public money, spend their resources on boosting share prices and executive pay, and reap ever-expanding rewards without offering the market value.

In her previous work, The Entrepreneurial State, Mariana Mazzucato argued that public investment has been the most significant driver of innovation and product development. The iPhone as it exists would not have been possible without government-sponsored technology like Siri and Touch ID. Yet Apple today, like numerous other companies, is engaging in a massive repurchase scheme, and for the first time has prioritized value-extraction practices such as spending to boost shareholder profit-the very initiatives that funded their software. If private companies continue down this path, they will succeed in diminishing the size of their largest and most successful investor - the state - and will destroy powerful opportunities, shrivel markets, and depress wealth.

©2018 Mariana Mazzucato (P)2018 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books Corporate & Public Finance Economics Macroeconomics Microeconomics Politics & Government United States World Technology Banking Taxation Capitalism US Economy Socialism Thought-Provoking Government Economic disparity Money Economic Inequality
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Quite exceptionally poor reading made this a mighty struggle. Pity, because the actual content is excellent.

Good content, terrible reading

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I loved the constructive criticism. Arguments well structured, with enough reasoning, evidence, justification and examples that hardly leave room for objections.

Our course of actions in world's social economy

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For me, this book offered a constructive new perspective on value creation and a path forward to create value in the future. Not by punishing free market actors - but through collaboration between market and state.

A thought provoking look at value creation

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