Economist Explains How Government Wastes Billions. Aaron Meets Mariana Mazzucato

The management consultant industry is worth around a trillion dollars, yet few people on the street could discern exactly how that money is spent. Much of it is spent by governments with the UK leading the charge in contracting out a huge range of services to these huge, opaque companies. To discuss how we’ve ended up in this position, and what can be done about it, Aaron is joined by Mariana Mazzucato, co-author of ‘The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies’.