Introduction

Mariana masucato is one of the most fluential economists in the world. She argues that, instead of giving up on capitalism altogether, a more useful approach would be for governments to promote the best aspects of the capitalist system. Mariana was born in rome in 19 68 and moved with her family to princeton, usa after her father accepted a position as a physicist atPrinceton university's plasma physics laboratory. Her mother was a teacher of italian literature and a locally celebrated cook whose dinner guests included john nash, the nobell prize winning game theorist. For last 20 years, marian has lived with her film producer husband and children in london borough of cam