Penguin presents the audiobook release of THE WORTHINESS of Everything by Mariana Mazzucato, browse by Amy Finegan.

Who really creates wealth inside our globe? And just how do we decide the value of what they do? At the heart of today’s economic and overall economy is a problem hiding in ordinary sight.

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

However, argues Mariana Mazzucato in this penetrating and passionate fresh publication, if we are to reform capitalism – radically to transform an extremely sick system instead of continue feeding it – we urgently need to rethink where wealth originates from. Which actions develop it, which draw out it, which destroy it? Answers to these queries are fundamental if you want to replace the current parasitic system with a kind of capitalism that is more sustainable, even more symbiotic – that works for us all. The Value of Everything will reignite a long-needed issue about the kind of world we really want to live in.