The big con: how the consulting industry weakens our businesses, infantilizes our governments, and warps our economies - mariana mazzucato

Mariana Mazzucato, PhD, is professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London, where she directs the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.

Her bestselling books include The Entrepreneurial State, The Value of Everything, and Mission Economy.

Her many prizes include the 2020 John von Neumann Award and the 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought.

She is chair of the World Health Organizations Council on the Economics of Health for All and a member of the United Nations High Level Advisory Board for Economic and Social Affairs.

Rosie Collington is a PhD candidate at the University College London Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, where she researches outsourcing.

She has written for The Guardian (London), openDemocracy, and The Independent (London), has published with New Political Economy and the Institute for New Economic Thinking , and has conducted policy research for the CommonWealth, and the British Heart Foundation.