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The Value of Everything by Mariana Mazzucato — WisdomDeck honest review
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The Value of Everything

by Mariana Mazzucato

Who creates value and who extracts it: finance, pharma, tech, and the way GDP counts rent as production. A history of value theory with teeth.

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you want to rethink what counts as productive.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Value is contested.
  2. Extraction masquerades.
  3. Measure what matters.

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