The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies

by Mariana Mazzucato

In other words, they are “experts, extras and facilitators”[4] who create value by leveraging expertise and brokering technical or managerial knowledge.[5] In economic terms the corollary would be that consultancies exist because they create “economies of scale” in types of managerial, sectoral or technical knowledge, which others have called “economies of knowledge.”