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# The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths

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Review: Canonical Views of the State are Incorrect and Purposely Misleading - The Entrepreneurial State is an extremely important antidote to the chest-beating, state-hating masters of the economic universe whose stock in trade is purposeful deception about the role of the state in economic development. In this view, the state impedes the otherwise constant "progress" enabled by the private sector and private capital. Needless to say, this view makes for an all-too-convenient unfair distribution of wealth. In reality, the State's role in innovation, in the very types of risk-taking on which technological progress depends, is profound. Private capital's contribution to fundamental innovation pales in comparison; private capital enters the fray when much of the expenditure and risk has already been borne by the State. If you believe Apple and Google (and the like) are counter-examples, this book is a must for you. A very readable book of manageable length, The Entrepreneurial State will open your eyes to the travesty of a belief system that allows powerful people to privatize gain at the expense of the public/state. The technology sector is --truth be told-- as guilty of this as any other.
Review: Innovation for the Public Policy community and the Public - The Entrepreneurial State is a polemic. It is effective at imparting its message, which is critical because the rhetoric it is attempting to counter is both clear and pervasive, though ideologically driven and counterfactual. Perhaps it boils down to its genesis as a shorter report, but this book is unusually fractal. It is as if Mariana Mazzucato intentionally approached the writing knowing that portions (chapters?) would be photocopied and sent to unknown but highly important audiences. No matter how you slice it, her core message is retained, but the cover-to-cover reader emerges from the experience well tenderized, to say the least. A comprehensive and well supported monograph, it does not shy away from its goal : to fundamentally reorient the policy community and the public at large to the realities of the relationship between the public sector, the private sector, and technological innovation. Although plagued by mind-numbing quantities of reiteration, and occasional scapegoating and slighting for rhetorical purposes, it nonetheless is an important addition to the literature and one that will be much cited in the future.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #822,474 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #14 in Economic Policy & Development (Books) #14 in Government & Business #20 in Economic Policy |
| Customer Reviews | 4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars (211) |
| Edition  | 1st |
| ISBN-10  | 0857282522 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0857282521 |
| Item Weight  | 1 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 266 pages |
| Publication date  | June 10, 2013 |
| Publisher  | ANTHEM PRESS |

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Canonical Views of the State are Incorrect and Purposely Misleading
*by R***N on April 14, 2014*

The Entrepreneurial State is an extremely important antidote to the chest-beating, state-hating masters of the economic universe whose stock in trade is purposeful deception about the role of the state in economic development. In this view, the state impedes the otherwise constant "progress" enabled by the private sector and private capital. Needless to say, this view makes for an all-too-convenient unfair distribution of wealth. In reality, the State's role in innovation, in the very types of risk-taking on which technological progress depends, is profound. Private capital's contribution to fundamental innovation pales in comparison; private capital enters the fray when much of the expenditure and risk has already been borne by the State. If you believe Apple and Google (and the like) are counter-examples, this book is a must for you. A very readable book of manageable length, The Entrepreneurial State will open your eyes to the travesty of a belief system that allows powerful people to privatize gain at the expense of the public/state. The technology sector is --truth be told-- as guilty of this as any other.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Innovation for the Public Policy community and the Public
*by H***R on September 9, 2014*

The Entrepreneurial State is a polemic. It is effective at imparting its message, which is critical because the rhetoric it is attempting to counter is both clear and pervasive, though ideologically driven and counterfactual. Perhaps it boils down to its genesis as a shorter report, but this book is unusually fractal. It is as if Mariana Mazzucato intentionally approached the writing knowing that portions (chapters?) would be photocopied and sent to unknown but highly important audiences. No matter how you slice it, her core message is retained, but the cover-to-cover reader emerges from the experience well tenderized, to say the least. A comprehensive and well supported monograph, it does not shy away from its goal : to fundamentally reorient the policy community and the public at large to the realities of the relationship between the public sector, the private sector, and technological innovation. Although plagued by mind-numbing quantities of reiteration, and occasional scapegoating and slighting for rhetorical purposes, it nonetheless is an important addition to the literature and one that will be much cited in the future.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ vindicating John Maynard Keynes
*by A***R on March 21, 2025*

As a student of english literature, I've come to eschew passive verbs not only from my writing, but also from my speech. Thus, I tend to loath statements such as "government is the problem" or "the the markets are stable". And for all those free market acolytes, Dr. Mazzucato tears down your balcony. Yes, entrepreneurship does improve people's lives, and capitalism does serve as a powerful catalyst in engendering it. However, only a very parochial mindset believes that it falls exclusively within the domains of the private sector. Professor Mazzucato ables conveys how governement funding has given rise to the internet, iphone, and other pedestrian household items that many people today take for granted. Innovation's purpose should first be the ameliorate the quality of living for all, and then about making money. When people prioritize making money, they often make it their sole objective, and often times in achieving that goal, resort to improbity and unbounded exuberance. Want to emperical evidence? Look at the stock market crash of '29, the bubbles of tulips, tech stocks, and subprime mortgages. What got us out of those fiascos? Government spending. So we should not focus on weather governement being stable and the private sector being stable or vice versa, but how they can be used in conjunction to establish steady growth, creating prosperity for all, as did transpire for four decades when FDR got the New Deal implemented. Yes, private sector does fuel growth and innovation, but Government spending does not iterfere with it, at least not good governing. Rather, it regulates it, precluding it from getting too large to manage. The internet, iphone, and even Tesla, got their initial support from the Government, not from Bessemer Venture Partners or Lightspeed. Good government begets great prosperity.

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