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The big con: how the consulting industry weakens our businesses, infantilises our governments and warps our economies

by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington, London, Allen Lane, 2023, 368 pp., £25 (hardback), ISBN-10: 0241573084, ISBN-13: 978-0241573082

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