It’s basically a defense of bureaucracy by a bureaucrat. This book is a concoction of half baked ideas summarized best as “state spending good capitalism bad”. Everything you thought about ivory towers and academia was right, and Mariana is proof of it. But I will give this book a 5 stars because it shows how far away from reality the bureaucrat class is. And by defend I mean defending while her speaking fees reach 100,000 dollars a pop (or, most likely increased in the future due to said inflation…the irony). Poor she claims to defend throughout the book, by the way. It’s hard to give more than a two stars rating to a book by an “economist” who doesn’t understand how printing money can cause inflation, a tax on the poor if there was ever one. Why the bureaucrat class must be kept away from the years of power at all costs We can do it again to fix our problems and improve the lives of every one of us. 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. 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. 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. Global warming, pollution, dementia, obesity, gun violence, mobility-these environmental, health, and social dilemmas are huge, complex, and have no simple solutions. Mission Economy looks at the grand challenges facing us in a radically new way.

But how do we fix these problems decades in the making? 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. “She offers something both broad and scarce: a compelling new story about how to create a desirable future.”- New York TimesĪn 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.Ĭapitalism is in crisis. Longlisted for the 2021 Porchlight Business Book Awards, Big Ideas & New Perspectives

Mission economy by mariana mazzucato