They required new forms of collaboration between the public sector (notably, NASA) and private companies. The extraordinary efforts that took mankind to the moon 50 years ago were more than a scientific feat of aeronautics. Mission Economy, whose ideas are already being adopted around the world, offers a way out of our impasse to a more optimistic future. 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.
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. It had no answers to a host of problems, including disease, inequality, the digital divide and, perhaps most blatantly, the environmental crisis. ’One of the most influential economists in the world’ WiredEven before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capitalism was stuck. Mission Economy : A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
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