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Business Daily meets: Mariana Mazzucato

The professor of economics on why she thinks big consultancies and outsourcing firms are weakening business and governments.

The world's major consulting firms make an estimated trillion dollars a year, directing governments and businesses on how best to govern.

But the economist Mariana Mazzucato argues that outsourcing the brain power of governments to private firms is a dangerous trend.

Ed Butler asks her why she thinks it isn't money well spent.

(Picture: Mariana Mazzucato. Credit: Getty Images)

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