{"product_id":"9781541758247","title":"The Value of Everything","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe award-winning author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Entrepreneurial State\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMission Economy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e offers a scathing indictment of a global financial system that incentivizes taking over making and extraction over creation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A stimulating analysis of the underlying causes of inequality and growth which forces us to confront long-held beliefs about how economies work and who benefits.” —Martin Wolf, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Value of Everything\u003c\/i\u003e is a penetrating and passionate argument that modern capitalism has failed to clearly delineate between value creation and value extraction. As economist Mariana Mazzucato shows, from Silicon Valley to Wall Street and beyond, foggy notions of value create confusion between rents and profits, reward extractors rather than creators, and distort the measurements of growth and GDP. Asset management companies profit exorbitantly off of income generated elsewhere; big pharma uses value-based pricing to justify astronomically high prices for vital medicines that are publicly funded. In the process, innovation suffers and inequality widens.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Value of Everything\u003c\/i\u003e reignites the debate over how we measure value in our society—and in so doing, shows how we can shape our economy to be more innovative and inclusive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariana Mazzucato","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":51709506027680,"sku":"9781541758247","price":12.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a90dd175-13e9-4307-9213-5a51a6ed9ef9.jpg?v=1728168845","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9781541758247","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}