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Announcement of the winner of the inaugural Not The Nobel Prize in Economics

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The first ever Not the Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Mariana Mazzucato, who has specialised in analysing the actual role of governments in sponsoring and enabling innovation, in contrast to Neoclassical economics which simply assumes that governments have no role–or even a negative one–in innovation. I’ll write a lengthier blog post on the ...

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The first ever Not the Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Mariana Mazzucato, who has specialised in analysing the actual role of governments in sponsoring and enabling innovation, in contrast to Neoclassical economics which simply assumes that governments have no role–or even a negative one–in innovation.



I’ll write a lengthier blog post on the event, and Mariana’s work, on my Patreon site https://www.patreon.com/ProfSteveKeen, but for now I simply want to make available this video of Henry Leveson-Gower’s announcement, and the acceptance speech by Henry Lishi Li, Mariana’s representative at the event.



Steve Keen
Steve Keen (born 28 March 1953) is an Australian-born, British-based economist and author. He considers himself a post-Keynesian, criticising neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific and empirically unsupported. The major influences on Keen's thinking about economics include John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, Hyman Minsky, Piero Sraffa, Augusto Graziani, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Thorstein Veblen, and François Quesnay.

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