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The Entrepreneurial State
Oct 7, 2024 12:34 PM

Author:Mariana Mazzucato,Mariana Mazzucato

The Entrepreneurial State

10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION: UPDATED WITH A NEW PREFACE

'Superb ... At a time when government action of any kind is ideologically suspect, and entrepreneurship is unquestioningly lionized, the book's importance cannot be understated' Guardian

According to conventional wisdom, innovation is best left to the dynamic entrepreneurs of the private sector, and government should get out of the way. But what if all this was wrong? What if, from Silicon Valley to medical breakthroughs, the public sector has been the boldest and most valuable risk-taker of all?

'A brilliant book' Martin Wolf, Financial Times

'One of the most incisive economic books in years' Jeff Madrick, New York Review of Books

'Mazzucato is right to argue that the state has played a central role in producing game-changing breakthroughs' Economist

'Read her book. It will challenge your thinking' Forbes

Reviews

Read her book. It will challenge your thinking

—— Forbes

One of the most incisive economics books in years

—— New York Review of Books

This book has a controversial thesis. But it is basically right

—— Financial Times

Nouriel Roubini was right

—— Paul Krugman , Time

The seer who saw it coming

—— The New York Times

The man known as "Dr Doom" has been hailed as a prophet

—— Financial Times

The only professional economist who really predicted the crisis, and perhaps the only independent thinker in that business

—— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Odell argues convincingly that our daily experience is dominated by the corporate clock that so many of us contort ourselves to fit inside

—— Irish Independent

The best beach read of the year ... Read it, and then think deeply about how you are reading your own time

—— The Media Leader

Odell's latest book, Saving Time, is great at analysing where a lot of our notions about how to use our time came from (hint: capitalism).

—— RTE Ireland

One of President Barack Obama's 'Favourite books of 2019'

—— President Barack Obama on How To Do Nothing

[a] fascinating and timely history

—— Ian Pindar , Guardian

Incredibly vivid

—— Press Association

I've read lots of books about economics this last year. This is one of the very best... Superb

—— Standard

A fluent and indirect paean to Keynesian economics... this resonates with the contemporary turmoil in global financial markets

—— Financial Times

Ahamed unravels the story of the most terrible financial collapse in history from the perspective of the four men who were largely responsible: the leading central bankers in the United States, Britain, France and Germany

—— Mail on Sunday

[a] very readable portrait of the bankers who allowed the Great Depression to happen

—— Telegraph

Possibly the most important political book that I have read since The Spirit Level

—— Stuart Weir, co-founder of Charter 88, former editor of the New Statesman

He has prised the lid off an important and terrifying can of worms

—— Martin Vander Weyer , Literary Review

Lively and well written book

—— Toby Young , Mail on Sunday

A welcome account of how the sun is never allowed to set on the British empire's old islands, whose fiscal pirates hoard the tax-free treasures of the rich

—— Geoffrey Robertson , New Statesman, Books of the Year

Shaxson delves into capitalism's secret nooks and tells us about how a culture of secrecy can perpetuate itself. Very interesting

—— William Leith , Evening Standard

A compelling read [...] an important and very much a live topic, it'll take you a few hours to read the book but it will be a worthwhile investment of time

—— Peter Magee , Bookbag

What makes this such a good read for the layman is that the author employs all his journalistic skill (he used to work at Reuters) to illustrate his arguments and uses real examples to real examples to illustrate complex issues

—— John Arlidge , Sunday Times

This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the world we live in

—— Brian Maye , Irish Times

This engrossing book about the offshore banking racket, with its eye-opening scrutiny of tax havens and the suited scoundrels who profit from them, will make you think again about the murkier side of the City...This first-rate forensic work ends with a plea that the closed City "must be abolished and submerged into a...fully democratic London"

—— Boyd Tonkin , Independent

[An] informed polemic against finance capital

—— Oliver Kamm , The Times

Now more than a decade old, this is still the best introduction to the world of tax havens

—— Economist, *Summer Reads of 2022*
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