The Entrepreneurial State

Jennifer Chan
5 min readSep 26, 2018

Sorry Milton Friedman, but innovation needs government support and intervention.

What if we’ve been translating Adam Smith wrong for the last three centuries? This is something that I’ve been mulling over lately, thanks to the immutable Mariana Mazzucato, professor and Chair in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL), and her book, “The Entrepreneurial State.”

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Jennifer Chan

Productivity, craftsmanship, and the pursuit of excellence at work. Writing now at jennifertchan.substack.com.