Ouvrage de référence et de combat d'une grande économiste, L'État entrepreneur est un appel à modifier notre façon de parler de l'État et de son rôle dans l'économie.
Contre un certain discours de dénigrement de l'action étatique et les politiques d'austérité budgétaire particulièrement prégnantes depuis 2008, Mariana Mazzucato montre que, de l'iPhone à l'industrie pharmaceutique, ce sont souvent les fonds publics qui apportent une stratégie à long terme. Les « innovateurs de génie » sont d'abord des bénéficiaires privilégiés des investissements publics dans la recherche fondamentale et le développement des nouvelles technologies, alors qu'ils réclament toujours plus d'avantages fiscaux et moins de contraintes administratives.
Pour que l'innovation ne soit pas laissée aux seuls acteurs du secteur privé, nous avons besoin de mieux comprendre comment transformer l'État en moteur principal d'une croissance tirée par l'investissement, capable de s'attaquer aux grands défis de notre époque, depuis le changement climatique jusqu'à la santé de demain, en passant par la maîtrise de la révolution numérique.
Ce livre qui repense la vocation du capitalisme moderne a connu un immense retentissement et a déjà fait l'objet de 17 traductions à travers le monde.
The extraordinary efforts that took mankind to the moon 50 years ago were more than a scientific feat of aeronautics. They required new forms of collaboration between the public sector (notably, NASA) and private companies. This book asks: what if the same level of boldness - the boldness that set inspirational goals, took risks and explicitly recognized that this requires large spending but will be worthwhile in terms of long-term growth - was applied to the biggest problems of our time, climate change, disease and inequality, to name only a few? Mariana Mazzucato argues that applying innovation to societal goals and structuring government budgets more explicitly to the long-term, as the moon programme did, we can do government differently.>
'Superb ... At a time when government action of any kind is ideologically suspect, and entrepreneurship is unquestioningly lionized, the book's importance cannot be understated' Guardian According to conventional wisdom, innovation is best left to the dynamic entrepreneurs of the private sector, and government should get out of the way. But what if all this was wrong? What if, from Silicon Valley to medical breakthroughs, the public sector has been the boldest and most valuable risk-taker of all? 'A brilliant book' Martin Wolf, Financial Times 'One of the most incisive economic books in years' Jeff Madrick, New York Review of Books 'Mazzucato is right to argue that the state has played a central role in producing game-changing breakthroughs' Economist 'Read her book. It will challenge your thinking' Forbes
Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? At the heart of today's financial and economic crisis is a problem hiding in plain sight. In modern capitalism, value-extraction is rewarded more highly than value-creation: the productive process that drives a healthy economy and society. From companies driven solely to maximize shareholder value to astronomically high prices of medicines justified through big pharma's 'value pricing', we misidentify taking with making, and have lost sight of what value really means. Once a central plank of economic thought, this concept of value - what it is, why it matters to us - is simply no longer discussed. Yet, argues Mariana Mazzucato in this penetrating and passionate new book, if we are to reform capitalism - radically to transform an increasingly sick system rather than continue feeding it - we urgently need to rethink where wealth comes from. Which activities create it, which extract it, which destroy it? Answers to these questions are key if we want to replace the current parasitic system with a type of capitalism that is more sustainable, more symbiotic - that works for us all. The Value of Everything will reignite a long-needed debate about the kind of world we really want to live in.