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Mariana Mazzucato: Rethinking Value

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The Link Between Income and Value

The idea that somehow this link between income and value, which basically is why blank fiend was able to say Goldman Sachs workers are the most productive in the world because they earn a shitload of money. Because prices are revealing value, that income is a measure if you want of their productivity. And the really interesting thing, this is probably one of the most profound things, is that rent, which people talk about, there's all sorts of books now in inequality that talk about rent. But it's simply uncompetitive price, some sort of monopoly power, which in theory, once we get rid of the imperfections, can be competed away. It's just a big change in focus from

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