TY - BOOK ID - 78377319 TI - The value of everything : making and taking in the global economy PY - 2018 SN - 9780241188811 9780241347799 PB - London Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books DB - UniCat KW - 330.191.6 KW - Economie, internationaal KW - Economische politiek KW - Globalisering KW - #SBIB:33H000 KW - #SBIB:33H012 KW - 380.1 KW - wereldeconomie - internationale economie KW - Economie: algemene werken KW - Economische stelsels (Marxisme, capitalisme …) KW - Waardeleer KW - Economic order UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78377319 AB - 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 vale - 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. ER -