Outsourcing Stats SA’s functions or imposing hefty budget cuts a bad move

MARIANA Muzzucato, a Presidential Economic Advisory Council member, has breathed life into the contestations about the political economy and the role of the government in the state.

Muzzucato has introduced a concept of an entrepreneurial state. She has argued that state-owned entreprises (SOEs) become the backbone and the interlocutor of the government and the private sector in achieving