Prof. Mariana Mazzucato in conversation

1 May 2019 - 17:30

Hertford Conversations are delighted to be hosting the next talk in our Debating Capitalism series with Will Hutton, Principal at Hertford College.

Mariana Mazzucato is Professor of the Economics of Innovation and Public Value and is Founder and Director of the Institute of Innovation and Public Purpose at University College London (UCL).

Prof. Mazzucato is winner of the 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. She was named one of the ‘3 most important thinkers about innovation’ by the New Republic and made The Bloomberg 50 list of ‘Ones to Watch’ for 2019. Her highly acclaimed book, “The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths” was on the 2013 Books of the Year list of the Financial Times. Her new book, “The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy” was shortlisted for the 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize. She advises policy makers around the world on innovation-led inclusive growth.

Come and join us in the Baring Room, Hertford College, on Wednesday 1 May.

Tickets are free and are available through Eventbrite.

Find out more about our series of debates at www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/capitalism

Where is today’s capitalist economy headed?

“There are fewer and fewer defenders, even among business leaders, of the way the current system operates which – despite its capacity to create jobs – brings growing levels of inequality, poor levels of investment, ever more job insecurity and the diminution of the concept of career. Trust in business is falling to new levels. But with little appetite for a return to the socialist economy of the twentieth century, how can capitalism best be reformed or transformed? Hertford Conversations launches a series of debates with leading thinkers – Debating Capitalism.”

Will Hutton, Principal