[G.e.t] [Knihy] The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the
Global Economy
By Mariana Mazzucato
Modern economies reward activities that extract value rather than create it. This
must change to insure a capitalism that works for us all.In this scathing indictment of
our current global financial system, The Value of Everything rigorously scrutinizes the
way in which economic value has been determined and reveals how the difference
between value creation and value extraction has become increasingly blurry. Mariana
Mazzucato argues that this blurriness allowed certain actors in the economy to
portray themselves as value creators, while in reality they were just moving existing
value around or, even worse, destroying it.The book uses case studies - from Silicon
Valley to the financial sector to big pharma - to show how the foggy notions of value
create confusion between rents and profits, a difference that distorts the
measurements of growth and GDP.The lesson here is urgent and sobering: to rescue
our economy from the next, inevitable crisis and to foster long-term economic
growth,
