The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy Audiobook (Free)

Penguin presents the audiobook release of The Value of Everything by Mariana Mazzucato, browse by Amy Finegan.

Who actually creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? At the heart of today’s monetary and economic crisis is a problem hiding in basic sight.

In modern capitalism, value-extraction is rewarded more highly than value-creation: the effective process that drives a wholesome economy and society. From businesses driven solely to maximize shareholder worth about THE WORTHINESS of Everything: Producing and Consuming the Global Overall economy to astronomically high prices of medicines justified through big pharma’s ‘worth prices’, we misidentify acquiring with making, and also have shed view of what value actually means. Once a central plank of financial thought, this idea of worth – what it really is, why it issues to us – is merely no longer talked about.

Yet, argues Mariana Mazzucato in this penetrating and passionate new book, if we are to reform capitalism – radically to transform an extremely sick system instead of continue feeding it – we urgently have to rethink where wealth comes from. Which activities produce it, which remove it, which eliminate it? Answers to these questions are fundamental if you want to replace the current parasitic system with a kind of capitalism that’s more sustainable, more symbiotic – that works for all of us all. THE WORTHINESS of Everything will reignite a long-needed controversy about the kind of globe we really want to live in.