We can do it again to fix our problems and improve the lives of every one of us.

By setting grand missions for themselves, she writes, and deploying the power of the state in practical ways, they can become more prosperous and equitable. That means changing government tools and culture, creating new markers of corporate governance, and ensuring that corporations, society, and the government coalesce to share a common goal. In Mission Economy Mariana Mazzucato argues that societies ought to abjure tired ideologies and embrace the policy approach that put astronauts on the Moon. We can only begin to find answers if we fundamentally restructure capitalism to make it inclusive, sustainable, and driven by innovation that tackles concrete problems from the digital divide, to health pandemics, to our polluted cities. Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, UCL. Mariana Mazzucato argues we need to think bigger and mobilize our resources in a way that is as bold as inspirational as the moon landing-this time to the most ‘wicked’ social problems of our time. Mission Oriented Innovation reframing the direction of economic growth. Global warming, pollution, dementia, obesity, gun violence, mobility-these environmental, health, and social dilemmas are huge, complex, and have no simple solutions. In this episode, Professor Jeffrey Sachs speaks with Dr. Mission Economy looks at the grand challenges facing us in a radically new way. Episode 4: Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs. But how do we fix these problems decades in the making? In Mission Economy, Mazzucato offers a call to bold, collective action. We are plagued by crises threatening our lives, and this situation is unsustainable. 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.

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