"Que tal aplicar as ideias [da #Mazzucato] numa iniciativa corajosa que pode servir de farol para o mundo? O caso da #DeepSeek me leva a perguntar: não vale criar um programa público de desenvolvimento de alternativas tecnológicas, com ênfase na construção de soluções de #mídiasSociais, baseado em investimento nacional e internacional (não é o Brasil a bola da vez na gestão dos BRICs?). Asseguro que essa ideia está no ar e tem muita gente disposta a colocá-la em prática."
https://midianinja.org/opiniao/o-que-a-deep-seek-ensina-ao-lula-hacker/

I suppose the irony shouldn't be lost on us that what is commonly called #generativeAI is, e.g. in the form of currently popular proprietary LLMs, a technology that is *not generating* value but, instead, extracting value from non-/low-paid workers, only to sell it back to us as something invaluable. How about calling it #exploitativeAI rather?

Think about that before you start employing one of those popular, closed LLMs!

(A thought whilst re-reading "The Value of Everything" by #Mazzucato )

@nicol I am currently feeling very similar about the book "The Value of Everything" by Mariana #Mazzucato .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsh-SYKUuwg

The Big Con:
How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies. Mazzucato, Mariana; Collington, Rose, eds. (2023).
https://marianamazzucato.com/books/the-big-con
#book #Mazzucato #big4 #ConsultingIndustry #State #capacity #tax #outsource #governance #accountability #PublicService #KnowHow #knowledge #dependency

Australia and the Big 4
How the big four accounting firms infiltrated governments, earning more than $10b over a decade while taxpayers are in the dark
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-17/pwc-ey-kpmg-deloitte-government-10-billion/102602370

Butler to the World:
How Britain Became the Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals, Oliver Bullough. 2022
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250281920/butlertotheworld

Tracking how the super rich are changing the world for the rest of us, Oliver Bullough.
https://www.codastory.com/newsletters/oligarchs/
#Britain #UpperClass #crime #AntisocialBehaviour #Tycoons #TaxDodgers #Kleptocrats #Criminals

#Klimawandel, #Inflation und #Ukraine-#Krieg sowie Umwälzungen wie die #Digitalisierung zeigen, der #Staat hat auch in #Zukunft eine wichtige Rolle. #Ecolomist mit Blick auf Mariana #Mazzucato
https://awblog.at/oeffentlicher-sektor-der-ausgehungerte-staat/

..Noch absurder wird es, wenn Regierungen beginnen, ihre eigene politische #Strategieentwicklung – den politischen Prozess der Entwicklung von #Strategien – an externe #Beraterfirmen auszulagern...

#Schulden #Sparen #Fiskalpolitik #Austerität #kosten #Infrastruktur #Transformation

#MarianaMazzucato #Mazzucato #BigCon #MissionEconomy

Ce #vendredilecture je fais un petit détour en sciences économique que d’habitude j’éviterais à tout prix car, n’est-ce pas, il y’a peu de scientifique dans ce domaine. Mais pour Mariana #Mazzucato on va faire une exception, surtout quand elle dissèque le monde méphitique des parasites du capitalisme néolibéral, ou « cabinets de conseils », dans son nouveau livre co-écrit avec Rosie Collington, « The big con », paru chez Penguin et uniquement en anglais pour le moment. https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/121420/mariana-mazzucato

"Private consultancy companies in the public sector are like the therapist that won't let the patient go because they make good money out of the sessions".

Another standing ovation for Marianna #Mazzucato. I wish there were more economists like her in this world.

I would go even further than her: the outsourcing of all the big problems to external consultants is the reason why today's politicians and administrators are much worse and underprepared of those before them.

If you can offload all the complex issues to an (unaccountable and unelected) external company, then you don't need the brightest people in politics anymore. All present and future classes of civil servants will have no chances of being forged through challenging problem solving on scale. And an increasing amount of taxpayers money will go to "do-it-all" companies that will do more and more of the jobs that elected representatives no longer have the skills to do.

https://links.fabiomanganiello.com/share/63ee20e9596585.28375408

Two articles in the last few days took on the world of consulting. Rebecca Ackermann in the MIT Technology Review wrote on how the shine of #designthinking has worn off, while Henry Mance interviewed Mariana #Mazzucato in the Financial Times on her new book The Big Con, where she lambasts business consultancies for having no expertise in the areas that they’re advising in.

https://blog.experientia.com/taking-on-design-thinking-and-business-consulting/

#designthinking #humancentereddesign #Experientia #consulting

An invitation to the next #BetaCodex #BookClub session, which is going to happen on 28. February.

You are invited!
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7021243141173227520

#leadership #orgdev #change #transformation #workthesystem #systemsthinking #mazzucato

@sixtus Zum Thema #Krankenhäuser #Gesundheitsvorsorge und den #Mythos was der #Staat kann oder nicht, hat Mariana #Mazzucato in #MissionEconomy grossartige Analysen und Ideen vorgestellt. Bei der Frage „Staat oder Privat“ darf man nicht vergessen, dass es eigentlich um „Gewinne oder nur die schwarze Null inkl. Zuflüssen aus Steuergeldern“ geht. Bei #Gesundheit #Pflege #ÖPNV #Bildung #Kultur muss es um das #Wohlergehen vieler gehen, nicht um den #Profit weniger #wirtschaft

Why is #EuropeanUnion tech investment so much less productive than US investment? Not that US policy is so great, but the Internet, GPS, Electric cars, space, genomics, etc. are major successes of US public investment -all of which involve the secret ingredient. The US government is able, sometimes, to invest in projects that are disruptive and strongly not welcomed by incumbents. #mazzucato

@FrauMaja ich bin auch ein Fan des #BGE, allerdings mehr von der Idee und dem Ziel, das dahinter steht als von den bisherigen konkreten Umsetzungsplänen. Was mich am meisten stört ist, dass das BGE den Fokus auf die Verteilung von geschaffenem Wert aber weniger auf die Schaffung des Wertes an sich setzt. Wir müssten den Begriff der #Erwerbsarbeit mal dringend überarbeiten und gesellschaftlich neu kalibrieren. Buchempfehlung hierzu: Mariana #Mazzucato „Wie kommt der Wert in die Welt“

#Mazzucato|k esaten duen bezala, "... hay q pasar de una economía cínica a una econ. esperanzadora..." eta @Koop57_EH|rekin egingo dugu. Zorionak @coop_57!! Eta eskerrik asko postala bidaltzeagatik!!pic.twitter.com/maq2os5Rdi https://twitter.com/lurwillen/status/1233185386878439425

[the public innovation stack]
"Economist Mariana #Mazzucato publishes a how-to kit for managing new funding formula. Missions should be ambitious - even risky - but also “realistically feasible”.
Missions are not single projects, "but portfolios of actions involving grants, prizes, new forms of procurement and financial instruments,”
https://sciencebusiness.net/framework-programmes/news/european-commission-releases-criteria-research-missions