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This talk live streamed on YouTube starting at 12:15 PM (EST) on February 19.

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This keynote talk is part of JRCCPF's Tenth Annual Conference: Healing the Big Fractures in the Economy, Politics, & Society. Panel discussions about increasing investment and making growth more equitable follow this keynote.

Mariana Mazzucato (PhD) is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL), where she is the Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose (IIPP). Her latest book Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism was just published in the UK and will be out in the US in March 2021. Mazzucato's work has drawn international recognition. She is the recipient of the 2020 John von Neumann Award, the 2019 All European Academies Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values, and the 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. She was named as one of the ‘3 most important thinkers about innovation’ by The New Republic, one of the 50 most creative people in business in 2020 by Fast Company, and one of the 25 leaders shaping the future of capitalism by WIRED. Her highly-acclaimed book The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths (2013) investigates the critical role the state plays in driving growth and her book The Value of Everything: making and taking in the global economy (2018) looks at how value creation needs to be rewarded over value extraction.

She received her B.A. from Tufts University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. Her previous posts include the RM Phillips Professorial Chair at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at Sussex University. She is a selected fellow of the UK’s Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and of the Italian National Science Academy (Lincei).