Mariana Mazzucato

AI Should Help Fund Creative Labor Mariana Mazzucato & Fausto Gernone show how today’s innovation economy exploits the very people it relies on and propose a fairer system.

More on the value extraction of Generative AI with @faustogernone.bsky.social ➡️ www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/how-... 3/3

Governments Are Not Startups Mariana Mazzucato & Rainer Kattel explain why ongoing efforts to run the state like a business are doomed to fail.

More on the myth of ‘start-up government’ with @rainerkattel.bsky.social ➡️ www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/g... 2/3

DOGE wasn't just a failure—it was the latest chapter in a 50-year project to dismantle state capacity. The question should have been obvious: efficient at what & for whom? New post on how "efficiency" is used as cover for systematic value extraction ➡️ marianamazzucato.substack.com/p/efficiency...

AI Should Help Fund Creative Labor Mariana Mazzucato & Fausto Gernone show how today’s innovation economy exploits the very people it relies on and propose a fairer system.

Every time you ask ChatGPT to proofread your email you quietly borrow from the labour of millions. In this sense, cultural production has already become a planetary co-operative. Updating its funding mechanism accordingly is necessary: it is time to socialise AI’s inputs.

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AI Should Help Fund Creative Labor Mariana Mazzucato & Fausto Gernone show how today’s innovation economy exploits the very people it relies on and propose a fairer system.

Generative AI runs on a paradox: it relies on content creators - artists, journalists and coders - whose work trains its models while eroding their incomes. The fix is to treat creative knowledge as a public good and fund it collectively.

Read piece by Fausto Gernone and me.

CCAG Website Current Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are not meeting the urgency or scale of the climate crisis. On the present course, they leave the world heading towards 3°C of warming – well beyond…

Nationally Determined Contributions arent just technical climate pledges—they're strategic economic roadmaps. When treated with high ambition, NDCs are levers for inclusive innovation-led growth. Our @climatecrisisag.bsky.social report shows how to embed climate at the centre of industrial strategy

Every time we ask ChatGPT to draft a speech or summarize a report, we’re quietly drawing on the unpaid labor of millions of creators. Updating its funding model to compensate them is long overdue, write @mazzucatom.bsky.social and @faustogernone.bsky.social.

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AI Should Help Fund Creative Labor Mariana Mazzucato & Fausto Gernone show how today’s innovation economy exploits the very people it relies on and propose a fairer system.

Generative AI models are a collective work of art built on the free labour of millions of creators. Rather than raising digital walls & enforcing stricter copyright, we must treat creative knowledge as a public good.

New piece with @faustogernone.bsky.social in @projectsyndicate.bsky.social

Watch the session ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWHF...
Our report on global insights on industrial strategy ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

Great to speak at the Conferenza nazionale del Forum Industria del Partito Democratico on green industrial strategy (IS) in Italy & EU w/ Elly Schlein. IS is vital for inclusive sustainable growth—requiring pre-distributive approaches where capital-labour/public-private relations are just by design.

The global public procurement market is worth an estimated US$13 trillion and is one of the biggest untapped levers for change that governments have, for achieving green industrial strategy. Great to Speak at the UN Environment Programme conference on Sustainable Public Procurement in Latin America.

Tony Blair thinktank worked with project developing ‘Trump Riviera’ Gaza plan Staff at former UK PM’s institute took part in calls as proposal led by US consulting firm and Israeli business people evolved

The latest BCG scandal is deeply troubling: $30m White House contract for Gaza food assistance that has seen violent reprisals against Palestinians collecting aid, & BCG's modeling for a "Gaza Riviera" project that proposed paying Palestinians to leave-with apparent Tony Blair Institute support 2/2

The Big Con Economics - Innovation - Inclusive Growth - Public Purpose | Mariana Mazzucato

As @rosiecollington.bsky.social and I argue in our book "The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies," we need a serious reset on how consulting companies interact with modern democracies. 1/2

One week to apply! @iipp-sea.bsky.social is hiring a Research Fellow to lead research with women economists from the Global South, rethinking industrial policy, global finance and state capacity.

Apply here and share with your networks ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Our G20 Discussion Paper provides a set of principles to underpin that coordination ➡️ g20.org/wp-content/u...

Just back from Seville after intense (& very hot!) days at #FfD4. These are my reflections on the need for a multilateralism that treats Seville, Belém & Johannesburg as links in a chain, not isolated events. We need coordination to tackle interconnected crises.

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Mind the Mission, Not the Gap - Rethinking blended finance for public purpose Authored by Mariana Mazzucato and Rogério Vieira de Sá

Our recent paper on Blended Finance ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

For a decade, we've been told blended finance would turn "billions into trillions." The reality? Just $15 billion annually—less than 0.4% of the $4 trillion needed for SDGs.

My reflections from #FfD4 ➡️ open.substack.com/pub/marianam...

From Seville to Belem to Johannesburg Building a multilateralism that is greater than the sum of its parts

Read it here ➡️ open.substack.com/pub/marianam...

We don't just need conferences, more 'blah blah blah'—we need connected, joined-up action written into the operating system of our multilateral order. My latest, reflecting on #FfD4, on building a multilateralism that's greater than the sum of its parts, from Seville to Belém to Johannesburg. Link ⬇️

The Economics of Water - Valuing the Hydrological Cycle as a Global Common Good Water is essential for life. It moves in complex, often invisible ways, all around us. And this water is under threat.

Read more in our report from the GCEW ➡️ watercommission.org#report
Read our new report on blended finance ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
Our letter in the Financial Times, with Ministers Carlos Cuerpo, Fernando Haddad & Enoch Godongwana ➡️ www.ft.com/content/53cd... 2/2

Blended financing isnt delivering the patient long-term capital needed for the global water crisis, as I shared w/ WaterAid at #FFD4. To meet SDG6–Clean Water–it's estimated that an investment of $114 billion/year is needed until 2030. We need a new framework for global development financing 1/2

WHO Council on the Economics of Health For All The WHO Council on the Economics of Health For All aims to reframe health for all as a public policy objective, and ensure that national and global economies and finance are structured in such a way…

Read the final report of the WHO council on #HealthForAll, that I co-chaired ➡️ www.who.int/groups/who-c...
Our paper on blended finance ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

A healthy inclusive economy needs both quantity & quality finance. We need to put health at the centre of the economy & better govern finance to ensure #HealthForAll. Pleasure to open the health financing session y'day w/ Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, Joseph Stiglitz, Monica Garcia, & Nadia Calvino at FfD4

Health for all: transforming economies to deliver what matters Final report of the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All

The resolution, passed at the 77th World Health Assembly, is based on the recommendations in the final report of the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All, which I chaired ➡️ www.who.int/publications...

Great to meet with @drtedros.who.int at #FfD4 to discuss financing strategies for implementing the WHO Resolution on the Economics of #HealthForAll. Health financing requires moving beyond narrow cost-benefit analysis to invest in health systems that build resilient economies.

Turning Populism's Tools Against Populism By Mariana Mazzucato & Rainer Kattel

The right champions static efficiency—doing the same things faster.cheaper. What we need is dynamic efficiency: the ability to transform systems to meet complex challenges. This isn't about Elon Musk wielding a chainsaw, but well-funded smart bureaucracies ready to tackle 21st century challenges.

Mind the Mission, Not the Gap - Rethinking blended finance for public purpose Authored by Mariana Mazzucato and Rogério Vieira de Sá

Great discussion with Jayati Ghosh, Ibrahim Mayaki and Jose Antonio Ocampo at the UNDESA Global Policy Dialogue on reimagining blended finance at #FfD4.

Our new paper "Mind the Mission, Not the Gap" outlines how development finance needs to change ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub... 2/2

Blended finance has underperformed–mobilising only $15b annually v $4tr needed for SDGs. Without directionality, genuine additionality & risk-reward sharing, it fails to create the partnerships needed where public & private actors share both risks & rewards to deliver transformative development 1/2

Mind the Mission, Not the Gap - Rethinking blended finance for public purpose Authored by Mariana Mazzucato and Rogério Vieira de Sá

Read our latest paper, "Mind the Mission, Not the Gap" ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...