Mariana Mazzucato
| Mariana Mazzucato | |
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| Born |
June 16, 1968 Rome, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian; American |
| Institution | University of Sussex (SPRU) |
| Field | Economics |
| Alma mater |
The Graduate Faculty of The New School (Ph.D., 1999) Tufts University (B.A., 1990) |
| Influences | Joseph Schumpeter, John Maynard Keynes |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Mariana Mazzucato (born June 16, 1968) is an economist, with dual Italian and United States citizenship. She is RM Phillips Professor in the Economics of Innovation at the University of Sussex, SPRU, and author of The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths.
Mazzucato's Italian parents, Ernesto and Alessandra, moved to Princeton, New Jersey in 1972, with their three young children, Valentina, Mariana and Jacopo, after Ernesto accepted a position as a physicist at Princeton University's Plasma Physics Laboratory. Mariana Mazzucato spent most of her life in the United States before returning to Europe in 2000.
Mazzucato obtained a Bachelor of Arts in history and international relations from Tufts University in 1990, a Masters in economics from the New School for Social Research in 1994, and a PhD in economics, also from the New School in 1999.
She graduated from Princeton High School in 1986.
Mazzucato became assistant professor of economics at the University of Denver in 1997. Between 1998 and 1999 she was a Post-Doctoral Marie Curie Research Fellow at the London Business School where she worked and published papers with Paul Geroski (former Dean of the London Business School). In 2000 she joined the Economics Department of the Open University as a Lecturer, becoming full Professor in 2004, where she founded and directed a research centre, Innovation, Knowledge and Development. From 2007 to 2009 she was visiting Professor at Bocconi University.
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