Not every government-led project is NASA during the moon landings, and Mazzucato does not even begin to recognise this in this book. The obvious and greater risk now seems to be that the period of dramatic underinvestment in the 2010s is over, and we instead are entering an inflationary period of huge state subsidy and protectionism which leads to overproduction and inefficiency (for example, in semiconductors). Mariana Mazzucato argues that applying innovation to societal goals and structuring government budgets more explicitly to the long-term, as the moon programme. Her third major book, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism, summarises her arguments for improving state capabilities and re-orientating. Her opinion that the state should drive investment, in 2023, is essentially consensus among political elites, regardless of party, in the US, UK and EU. Mariana Mazzucato (PhD) is a Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL), where she is the. Also, Mazzucato is a victim of her own success. the long writings on the UN’s sustainable development goals which are entirely unnecessary and just empty, as they’re intentionally meaningless platitudes written by elites designed to appeal to just about everyone in every member country.

Policy makers will want to take note.' - Publishers Weekly 'One of the world's most influential economists is on a mission to save capitalism from itself.' - Quartz 'The debates Mazzucato has been trying to open for years are now unavoidable. These blinks show how we can change the world by taking inspiration from one of the most famous missions of all: the moon landing. I loved the Value of Everything, but this was deeply disappointing. Mazzucato unearths a plethora of intriguing case studies to back up her claims. Mission Economy (2021) explains how we can rethink our approaches toward government and capitalism through the concept of missions huge, ambitious projects that inspire people across society to think big.

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