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How Capitalism Wastes Billions: Mariana Mazzucato's Tour De Force

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The Problem With Mission Oriented Governments

Every technology that is in this phone or iPhones was actually invested in by government took the early stage high risk capital intensive investments. We don't actually have a proper theory for that, right? Because then even with governments that believe in government and believe in the state and don't believe in the kind of just austerity cut back in government there's no incentive to invest within the brain of the civil service. So we have a dynamic agile flexible public sector that can work with others But also hold itself accountable. This is not about some sort of normative rosy view of the state as though the state is always great You know, we know By what happens in the world the state is often part of the

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