Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism

The extraordinary efforts that took mankind to the moon 50 years ago were more than a scientific feat of aeronautics. They required new forms of collaboration between the public sector (notably, NASA) and private companies. This book asks: what if the same level of boldness — the boldness that set inspirational goals, took risks and explicitly recognized that this requires large spending but will be worthwhile in terms of long-term growth — was applied to the biggest problems of our time, climate change, disease and inequality, to name only a few? Mariana Mazzucato argues that applying innovation to societal goals and structuring government budgets more explicitly to the long-term, as the moon programme did, we can do government differently.

• Author
• Mariana Mazzucato

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 272

• Publisher
• Penguin

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-14-199168-9

• EAN
• 9780141991689

• Release date
• 2022