Mission Economy A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism

Mariana Mazzucato

eBook - 2021

Longlisted for the 2021 Porchlight Business Book Awards, Big Ideas & New Perspectives"She offers something both broad and scarce: a compelling new story about how to create a desirable future."—New York Times An award-winning author and leading international economist delivers a hard-hitting and much needed critique of modern capitalism in which she argues that, to solve the massive crises facing us, we must be innovative—we must use collaborative, mission-oriented thinking while also bringing a stakeholder view of public private partnerships which means not only taking risks together but also sharing the rewards. Capitalism is in crisis. The rich have gotten richer—the 1 percent, those with more than $1 million, own 44 ...percent of the world's wealth—while climate change is transforming—and in some cases wiping out—life on the planet. We are plagued by crises... more