A pleasure to speak to members of the ECB's union, International and European Public Services Organisation (IPSO) yesterday. Huge concern among staff about the nature, scale and implications of outsourcing to consultants

See also: unionsyndicale.eu/ipso-solidarit…

this is unbearable, entire families wiped out every single day. if you’re not protesting this something’s wrong with you

THE BIG CON at Tirana Airport in Albania! 🤩 Mariana Mazzucato

Also feat Grace Blakeley's Vulture Capitalism 📕

Thanks to my mum's friend for the picture

Striking parallels between the Berlin and Columbia crackdowns: Shockingly authoritarian, bizarrely disproportionate and clearly aimed at spreading fear, possibly not legal, enacted at high cost to the respective institutions/governments. Real home front fighting vibes.

“Extractivism is the modality through which capitalism is lived in the periphery.”

I’m featured in the new issue of Granta in a wide ranging interview, with sharp questions from Thomas Meaney on the past, present, and possible futures of extraction. granta.com/the-extracted-…

Time flies! Common Wealth launched five years ago today 🎂

Thanks to our supporters + the wonderful team who have built CW together, it has been quite a journey.

Proud of what we've achieved, excited by what is to come. Here's a preview of upcoming work.

common-wealth.org/perspectives/t…

Is the tide turning on the era of outsourced government?
Great to have so many join me and Rosie Collington (my co-author) from the @ECB this evening to discuss how government has been hollowed out by an overreliance the consulting industry.

marianamazzucato.com/books/the-big-…

This evening I’ll be speaking alongside Rosie Collington (my co-author of the #TheBigCon ) to employees at @ECB about the challenges of the consultification of our institutions across Europe and what we can do about it.

marianamazzucato.com/books/the-big-…

Solid endorsements, if you ask me!
(Only abbreviated versions could fit on the cover - entire versions are available here: global.oup.com/academic/produ… )

McKinsey faces US criminal investigation over opioid industry work ft.com/content/d88492… via @ft

With a heavy heart I announce that my 18-year-old younger sister, Lara Sayegh, was killed today on her way from Gaza City to the south. She and my mother were reaching Egypt for safety. My angel collapsed as she was walking on the “safe route” past the Israeli checkpoint, in an…

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Just in: ‘Everything to Play For’ by Marijam Didžgalvytė. What have video games done for the world? Verso Books. Let me know if you want a galley

Rosie Collington Helen Pidd The Guardian Politiken Thanks for highlighting this Rosie ! It never ceases to surprise me how strongly many people in DK react to any discussions of colonial legacies here. I’m pretty much just stating the obvious in that piece but it seems like I’m breaking a national taboo

Her er noget der virkelig adskiller DK og UK. Mange ting vi ikke behøver kigge til UK for, men en insisteren på at forholde sig til fortiden, og tilvejebringe forskning og formidling om kolonitiden er beundringsværdig, og et eksempel til efterligning. #dkpol #dkforsk

Rosie Collington Helen Pidd The Guardian yes you are right. This piece by Danish historian&journalist Farhiya Khalid recently came out (in connection with a Francoise Vergès book) and can be read in translation here: acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc…