Post by Jan Terje Espeland

TIL HURDALSKAMERATENE! #jonasgahrstøre #trygveslagsvoldvedum #audunlysbakken Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? In modern capitalism, value-extraction is rewarded more highly than value-creation: the productive process that drives a healthy economy and society. From companies driven solely to maximize shareholder value to astronomically high prices of medicines justified through big pharma's "value pricing", we misidentify taking with making, and have lost sight of what value really means. Yet, argues Mariana Mazzucato, if we are to reform capitalism we urgently need to rethink where wealth comes from. Which activities create it, which extract it, which destroy it? Answers to these questions are key if we want to replace the current system with a type of capitalism that works for us all. (og til Anders Waage Nilsen - jeg håper du vil ta opp igjen Stormkast - hør med Jan Erik Kjerpeseth om ikke han også savner det internasjonale og fremtidsrettede tilsnittet over Stormkast konferansene - ikke til forkleinelse for Vestlandskonferansen men som en ytterligere konferanseberikelse i Bergen med impulser fra det store utland)