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The Big Con (Mariana Mazzucato)
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The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies is a nonfiction critique of the modern consulting industry by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington. Rather than treating consulting as a neutral source of expertise, the book argues that large firms often operate as powerful intermediaries that shape decisions, extend their own influence, and extract long-term fees from the institutions they advise. The authors focus especially on government, but they also examine corporate management, privatization, crisis response, and the broader political economy that has allowed consulting to expand. Their purpose is not simply to denounce consultants, but to show how organizations lose internal capability when they outsource core thinking and decision-making. The book combines policy analysis, institutional critique, and business history to question why so many public and private actors have become dependent on outside advisers and what that dependence costs in accountability, competence, and democratic control.
- Amazon USA Store: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BB3F8T9F?tag=9natree-20
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- Read more: https://english.9natree.com/read/B0BB3F8T9F/
#consultingindustryrentextraction #statecapacityoutsourcing #revolvingdoorcronyism #internalexpertiseerosion #neoliberalprivatization #TheBigCon
The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies is a nonfiction critique of the modern consulting industry by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington. Rather than treating consulting as a neutral source of expertise, the book argues that large firms often operate as powerful intermediaries that shape decisions, extend their own influence, and extract long-term fees from the institutions they advise. The authors focus especially on government, but they also examine corporate management, privatization, crisis response, and the broader political economy that has allowed consulting to expand. Their purpose is not simply to denounce consultants, but to show how organizations lose internal capability when they outsource core thinking and decision-making. The book combines policy analysis, institutional critique, and business history to question why so many public and private actors have become dependent on outside advisers and what that dependence costs in accountability, competence, and democratic control.
