The UK economy after Brexit: Working for all? Martin Wolf and Prof Mariana Mazzucato in conversation

Very rare - two outstanding economists, different paradigm platforms, but very well elaborated arguments, both eloquent and professional. Excellent!

Mariana is just fascinating.

Having re-watched this a year later, it's still worth listening to what Mazzucato and Wolf are saying. Probably even more so, after Trump's corporate tax cuts this year and AAPL stock having lost 25% of its value (not any longer a trillion dollar company, having lost 250 billion in value). Their expectations were bang on: businesses did not use the extra profits by investing more but for mostly share buy-backs and increased dividends, Apple's lack of investment showing up in the 2018 line up of hardware, software and services has proven the company vulnerable despite a decade of world record profits. To mention just a few gems in their discussion deserving a shine up. Looking forward to their next conversation.

What a fantastic discussion.

What's the wrist watch of Mr. Wolf? Does anyone know? It's not that I didn't pay attention to the discussion. :) I did and I also noticed the watch. :D

Understand that

I love her Brain.

27:40 I actually agree with him there. The megacorp already have WAY too much power.

Nothing on combatting INEQUALITY. All about business.

no se puede oir cuando dice que la deuda es privada y no publica. si los politicos son los que nos metieron en esto.

Why don't Wood use notes?

District Thermal Energy in a MUSco model

I like her.

Refreshing to hear a mature debate in contrast to the dumbed down conversation we see on main stream news and discussion panels such as Question Time. If the electorate is uninformed it renders our democracy ineffective as votes are wasted on slogans.

See the commissions work

And then we have our recent prime ministers ie Truss Johnson Cameron and their chancellors of exchequrs outcome were screwed

Allowing venture capitalists to cash out with a capital gains tax advantage after two years incentivises precisely the high-risk/high-reward early seed capital investment that new ideas need. The fact that those early investors can punt their shares to somebody else is evidence that they've done something socially useful. They've signed "The Beatles" when the band might have broken up.

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If companies engage in share buy backs they give the owners of those shares cash. Those individuals can buy goods - boosting demand - or invest as they see fit. If they distribute dividends the same is true. The buy back incurs tax costs, giving government money to spend. Dividends are taxed very heavily, again giving government money to spend or invest.

Corporate saving you mean the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer