Wonderful to join #COP30 Presidency last night at Climate Week for dinner with Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago, Tatiana Rosito, and Ana Toni as part of the #COP30 Economic Council. In Belém, we’ll share a new approach to country platforms, our State Transformation Report ➡️ buff.ly/o4k7ppC & more

Catch up on my conversation with Trevor Phillips from @thetimes.com Radio on the UK economy and the role of public investment in ensuring sustainable growth. Listen here ➡️ www.thetimes.com/radio/show/2...

Great to speak with Sec. Alicia Bárcena & Yin Shao Loong on pathways for low-carbon development. We explored how mission-oriented industrial policy can address food insecurity & climate crisis simultaneously—giving progressives concrete tools for transformation. Watch here ➡️ buff.ly/fst02Vw

I’ll be live on @thetimes.com Radio at 13:15 BST. We’ll be chatting about how public investment is essential for delivering sustainable growth & strengthening our economy. Tune in here ➡️ buff.ly/zjMq2bm Read more about UK investment strategies my Substack ➡️ buff.ly/Wdz0SmQ

School meals are not just about feeding children—they're a powerful tool for green industrial strategy that can lead to transformative change. Today I'll deliver closing remarks at @rockefellerfdn.bsky.social's regenerative school meals event to launch our new report ➡️ buff.ly/bOxeCWl

Inspiring discussion at the #WomenInFinance Platform hosted by Cristina Reis and @minfazenda.bsky.social. Women’s leadership is essential to driving this transformation. Excited to see this platform solidify as we aim for common goals of redesigning finance for an inclusive and sustainable future.

Tomorrow I’ll be on @thetimes.com Radio discussing the state of the UK economy – and how underinvestment blocks the path to sustainable growth. Listen here tomorrow @ 13:15 BST ➡️ www.thetimes.com/radio Read our mission-oriented industrial strategy report ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

In @projectsyndicate.bsky.social, I argue school meals must be reimagined as a platform for industrial strategy. This is more than hunger, but a way of bringing together welfare policy and innovation to create equity, farming, care, and public procurement. Read here ➡️ buff.ly/ajkbTBz

Published an open letter with @josephestiglitz.bsky.social & fellow economists warning that without reliable information, markets fail and society suffers. We need to shape information ecosystems to deliver public value, not extractive algorithmic rents. Read our open letter ➡️ buff.ly/RYO8imy

One year ago, we warned that the UK needed a step change in public investment. Today in we're forced to make the same argument. The fiscal constraints are real but not inescapable—we need strategic pro-investment reforms that focus on long-term sustainability. Today's letter ➡️

The US-UK 'Tech Prosperity Deal' exemplifies how not to structure tech investment. £31bn from US firms like OpenAI, Microsoft and Nvidia comes with public sector AI outsourcing and potential scrapping of the Digital Services Tax. Latest piece in @guardian ➡️ buff.ly/jXuANv5

Gordon Brown's powerful piece on child poverty highlights the urgent need for action. While redistributive taxes matter, our new report demonstrates how school meals can be a pre-distributive mechanism—catalysing innovation across food systems while ensuring no child goes hungry.

School meals are not just a welfare policy - they can be at the centre of a strategic industrial strategy, if done right. Our new report “A Mission Oriented Approach to School Meals” shows how ambitious school meal policy can drive innovation and equity across food systems, health, jobs & climate.

🥗 The global food system is not sustainable in its current form The latest report by IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social and Sarah Doyle outlines how a mission-oriented approach to school meals can be a catalyst for a global food system transformation. 🔗 Read the report here: buff.ly/6AvhUOh

What if something as simple as #SchoolMeals were treated as an opportunity to catalyse green and inclusive economic growth? Today we launch a new report with WFP calling for school meals to be part of cross-departmental, multi-sector industrial policy. Report here ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

Trumponomics offers gestures like equity stakes without a plan: interventions without coordination & spending without strategy. The problem isn’t the use of industrial policy but how it’s deployed – not to build productive capacity & gains for workers but to dismantle the entrepreneurial state.

Launched our paper on Public Value of Art & Culture this week at #WorldDesignCongress. Brian Eno, UCL IIPP Board Member, also spoke about "scenius", collective creativity emerging from vibrant cultural ecosystems. A core idea in our paper captures why we must invest in entire arts ecosystems.

The Scottish Government has taken important first steps with its Green Industrial Strategy, but to succeed it must go further to rethink the role of the state. Our report outlines how to match ambitious words with meaningful action through whole-of-government approach to economic transformation. 1/2

Cultural & creative industries generate $2.3t globally, but remain sidelined in industrial strategy. Their value goes beyond economic multipliers. Arts & culture shape how we create meaning, build collective purpose & design better futures. New paper make this case ⬇️

Great conversation w/ Kate Raworth at #WorldDesignCongress on role of design in reimagining economic governance. Timely given Trumps new America by Design initiative, but tech executives wont deliver public value—we need systemic change & design that delivers public value, not just aesthetics 1/2

Speaking today with @KateRaworth at #WorldDesignCongress. We'll explore how to redesign economic systems for planetary and social wellbeing. I'll be speaking about my new paper, just published today, on the Public Value of Arts and Culture–and why they are fundamental for economic transformation 1/2

Productive workshop with Deputy FM Kate Forbes & Scottish Govt on implementing mission-oriented industrial strategy. Scotland's Strategy has strong foundations but requires whole-of-government coordination to harness the policy tools at its disposal to deliver economic transformation at scale 1/2

One year on from Scotland's Industrial Strategy launch, we're hosting a workshop tomorrow with Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes and the Scottish Government. Building on our new report, we'll discuss how to move from ambitious vision to transformative implementation. www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

Looking forward to speaking w @kateraworth.bsky.social at #WorldDesignCongress. We'll explore how to redesign economy for planetary & social wellbeing. I'll be launching a new paper on Public Value of Arts & Culture. 9 Sep | 11:30 BST | Hybrid | www.worlddesigncongresslondon.com/en/book-now

The Scottish Govt has taken important first steps with its Green Industrial Strategy but talk of ‘missions’ without acting wont address Scotlands challenges. Our report w/ @lmacfarlane.bsky.social outlines how to match words w/ action through a whole-of-govt approach to economic transformation 1/3

Scotland's economy is at a critical juncture. New report w @lmacfarlane.bsky.social shows how a mission-oriented approach can transform Scotlands chronic low investment into an engine for inclusive growth. Time to move beyond a market-fixing state to proactively shape Scotlands economy 1/2

The UK economy allows the financial sector to earn profits without investment in productive capacities. On 'The Rest is Money' podcast, I spoke about it’s not how much government spends, but whether public investment creates conditions for sustainable growth. Listen here ➡️ buff.ly/jNy3pkY

Labour can still turn it around, but not without a really ambitious positive strategy which resonates with people. Moonshot missions are needed, not technocratic focus on key performance indicators alone. I spoke to @politico.com’s Dan Bloom. Read here ➡️ politico.eu/article/keir...

NDCs are not just climate pledges—but strategic economic roadmaps. We're failing to tackle climate crisis because NDCs remain disconnected from industrial strategies & financial policies. New blog and CCAG report show how high-ambition NDCs can become levers for inclusive, innovation-led growth.

In our latest blog, CCAG member Professor @mazzucatom.bsky.social explains why global climate commitments need to go hand-in-hand with national economic strategy, and how they can become powerful levers for inclusive, innovation-led growth. Find out more here: www.ccag.earth/news/nationa...

A lot of people are pointing out that copyright rules are breaking under the weight of generative AI, which exploits creative labour at scale. The solution is not to erect digital walls, but to treat collective knowledge as a public good and fund it collectively.

After getting various answers from ChatGPT that obviously were based on Wikipedia, I asked it if Open AI supported Wikimedia. It found Apple, Google.org, plus individual donors like Omidyar Network did, but not OpenAI. So I asked it to prepare a call for social media. This is it. Let's use it:

As Notting Hill Carnival kicks off on Sunday, it's worth remembering that this globally important cultural event creates immense public value beyond price metrics. A quintessentially collective creation with multiplier effects that stimulate local economy and generate vital community assets.

Water connects us all through atmospheric moisture that travels across continents. Deforestation in the Amazon reduces rainfall as far as the Congo Basin. We need a new lens that treats the hydrological cycle as a global common good requiring collective action. 1/2

Africa has vast untapped groundwater w/ 255m urban inhabitants living above known resources. Combined w/ affordable solar power, this is an opportunity to revolutionise agriculture, but to finance it we need better partnerships founded on justice. My piece ahead of #WaterInvestmentAfrica Summit 1/2

As leaders gather next week for the #WaterInvestmentAfrica Summit, the opportunity is historic. Under the South African G20 —the first for an African country—we can champion a new economics of water that treats the hydrological cycle as a global common good requiring mission-oriented investment 1/2

The costs of not acting on the water crisis far exceed the costs of action. High-income countries may see GDP shrink by 8% by 2050, while low-income countries—many in Africa—could face losses of 10-15%. Water is not a soft issue—it's hard economics, security & development #WaterInvestmentAfrica 1/2

DOGE embodied Silicon Valley startup logic: young tech workers w/ no government experience making rapid decisions about complex policy programmes. The predictable chaos—from disrupting nuclear security to grounding air traffic—is what happens when "move fast and break things" meets state capacity.

Wonderful to reconnect w IIPP PhD alum Nadia Monira & current MPA student Priyanka Bhupalan in their home country of Malaysia. Our work gains deeper meaning when we see how these ideas are being applied & adapted by out students in national contexts worldwide. www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

Today I met with w/ Malaysia’s Chief Secretary Tan Sri Shamsul Azri Abu Bakar and their team to discuss public service reform & building state capabilities for mission delivery. We discussed the challenges of enhancing delivery across govt & changing institutional cultures to support transformation.

Today I gave a lecture to Malaysian civil servants about the state capacity needed to build an entrepreneurial state. It requires govt to move past being a lender of last resort to becoming an investor of first resort with the capabilities for long-term thinking to confidently shape the economy 1/2

Great to meet with Mayor of Kuala Lumpur Maimunah Sharif and her team at KL city hall to discuss key challenges facing cities and how to build dynamic public sector capabilities at the local level 1/3

Yesterday I spoke with Malaysia’s Deputy Minister for Investment, Trade & Industry Liew Chin Tong; Nurul Izzah Anwar, Deputy President of PKR party and Datuk Hamdan, CIO of Khazanah, Malaysia's Sovereign Wealth Fund, about Malaysia's industrial transformation and reform agenda 1/2

On Monday I spoke w/ Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim about building public sector capabilities for Malaysia's transformation goals. A purpose-oriented approach means moving from a market-fixing to a market-shaping state, investing in capacity for cross-sectoral & cross-departmental collaboration 1/2

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...

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. @faustogernone.bsky.social

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.

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. bit.ly/41bb3Mb

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