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Downstream: The Big Con w/ Mariana Mazzucato

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The Big Con, How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses

The consulting industry weakens our businesses and phantilizes our governments. Lord Agnew said that if we keep outsourcing the role of government, we will stop learning. This is actually something I've been talking about for decades. When Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister in 1979, the British state is spending £6 million on consultants when she leaves in 1990,. So it's gone up more than 40 times. The numbers here are really impressive in terms of the growth.

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