Mission Economy

Resumen del libro

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capitalism was stuck. It had no answers to a host of problems, including disease, inequality, the digital divide and, perhaps most blatantly, the environmental crisis. Taking her inspiration from the 'moonshot' programmes which successfully co-ordinated public and private sectors on a massive scale, Mariana Mazzucato calls for the same level of boldness and experimentation to be applied to the biggest problems of our time.

We must, she argues, rethink the capacities and role of government within the economy and society, and above all recover a sense of public purpose. Mission Economy, whose ideas are already being adopted around the world, offers a way out of our impasse to a more optimistic future.

Biografía del autor

MARIANA MAZZUCATO(Roma, 1968) Economista experta en finanzas, innova ción y desarrollo, ha sido recientemente calificada por New Re public como una de las pensadoras más innovadoras en la ac tualidad. Doctorada en Económicas por la New School for Social Research, de Nueva York, ha sido profesora universita ria en Estados Unidos, Reino Unido e Ita lia, ha trabajado como asesora para la Co misión Europea y el gobierno británico, y actualmente imparte clases en la Univer sidad de Sussex. Entre sus trabajos y co laboraciones destacan Firm Size, Innova tion and Market Structure: The Evolution of Market Concentration and Instability, la obra colectiva Personal Investment: Fi nancial Planning in an Uncertain World y El Estado emprendedor.