The management consultancy industry is worth around a trillion dollars, yet few people on the street could tell you what all that money is for. Much of it is spent by governments, with the UK leading the charge. A huge range of services are contracted out to these huge, opaque companies. And in the long run, the government ends up unable to do anything for itself. 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 with Rosie Collington of ‘The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies’.
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