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Stories by Mariana Mazzucato

Published:Wednesday | April 16, 2025 | 8:30 AMMariana Mazzucato, Rainer Kattel for Project Syndicate

LONDON: Around the world, governments are trying to reinvent themselves in the image of business. Elon Musk’s DOGE crusade in the United States is quite explicit on this point, as is Argentina’s chainsaw-wielding president, Javier Milei...

Published:Wednesday | February 19, 2025 | 5:47 AMMariana Mazzucato, Tommaso Valletti for Project Syndicate

PARIS: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer recently published an 'AI Opportunities Action Plan' that includes a multibillion-pound government investment in the UK’s AI capacity and £14 billion ($17.3 billion) in commitments from tech...

Published:Wednesday | September 11, 2024 | 7:16 AMMariana Mazzucato, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Johan Rockström, and Tharman Shanmugaratnam for Project Syndicate

LONDON :When it comes to water, the world confronts an unsustainable situation. Yet fixing the problem is not only within reach; it is also the low-hanging fruit in tackling climate change and generating jobs and growth. The water crisis is plain...

Published:Wednesday | December 6, 2023 | 9:25 AMMariana Mazzucato, Partha Dasgupta, and Nicholas Stern for project Syndicate

LONDON :Nearly 30 years into global negotiations to address climate change, efforts to control the problem are lagging, reflecting stalled progress towards creating a sustainable trajectory more broadly. Each year of delay adds to the urgency of...

Published:Wednesday | March 15, 2023 | 7:43 AMMariana Mazzucato, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Johan Rockström, and Tharman Shanmugaratnam for Project Syndicate

LONDON : The world’s water crisis can no longer be ignored. Unless we manage water properly, we will neither tackle climate change nor meet most of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Last year’s unprecedented floods, droughts,...

Published:Tuesday | September 27, 2022 | 11:28 PMMariana Mazzucato, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Johan Rockström, and Tharman Shanmugaratnam for Project Syndicate

LONDON: The floods, droughts, heatwaves, and fires that are devastating many parts of the world underscore two fundamental facts. First, damage to freshwater supplies is increasingly straining human societies, especially the poor, with far-reaching...

Published:Wednesday | March 24, 2021 | 1:01 AMMariana Mazzucato, Laurie Macfarlane, and George Dibb for Project Syndicate

LONDON – The term “industrial strategy” has a turbulent history. After being embraced in the United Kingdom by the Labour governments of the 1960s and 1970s, it was rejected by Margaret Thatcher and subsequent prime ministers on...

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