Mission-driven localities
While exposing and exacerbating longstanding inequalities, the pandemic has given rise to a wealth of promising local initiatives.
Mariana Mazzucato
Don’t defund the BBC
Rather than public institutions being limited to fixing market failures, organisations such as the BBC are also market shapers.
From moonshots to earthshots
The pandemic has created a huge opportunity to restore mission-driven governance in the public interest.
Avoiding a climate lockdown
The world is approaching a tipping point on climate change, when protecting the future of civilisation will require dramatic interventions.
Capitalism’s triple crisis
After the 2008 financial crisis, we learned the hard way what happens when governments flood the economy with unconditional liquidity, rather than laying the foundation for a sustainable and inclusive recovery.
Preventing digital feudalism
Reforming the digital economy so that it serves collective ends is the defining economic challenge of our time.
Who Really Creates Value In An Economy?
After the 2008 global financial crisis, a consensus emerged that the public sector had a responsibility to intervene to bail out systemically important banks and
Mission Thinking: A Problem-Solving Approach To Fuel Innovation-Led Growth
The world is afflicted by problems that people experience in their daily lives: clean air in congested cities, a healthy and independent life in old
A State-Powered Green Revolution
Discussions about building a green future tend to focus on the need to improve the generation of energy from renewable sources. But that is just
Toward A Green New Deal
The global agreement reached in Paris last week is actually the third climate agreement reached in the past month. The first happened at the end
Jeremy Corbyn’s Necessary Agenda
Seven economists (including Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Piketty, and me) have agreed to become economic advisers to Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the British Labour Party. I