![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mazzucato, a professor of economics at University College London, does not seem to have worked in government, but she has clear advice as to what is required. Clearly, a lot of significant people are unhappy with the workings of capitalism and the state. BOOK REVIEW Mariana Mazzucato: Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism Allen Lane/Penguin, 2021, xxiv + 245 pp., ISBN: 978-0241419731 Pat. It had no answers to a host of problems, including disease. She has approached this task with the help of politicians across the world, including, in Britain, Nicola Sturgeon and the former business minister Greg Clarke, and elsewhere, Cyril Ramaphosa, president of South Africa, and Giuseppe Conte, the prime minister of Italy. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capitalism was stuck. She has, after all, an attractive ambition: ‘to rethink capitalism through rethinking the state’. ![]() Of the two, Mariana Mazzucato’s Mission Economy is likely to be the more influential. Here are two books by social scientists who have very different views of the world but share a certain optimism and a belief that humanity can do better when we emerge from the pandemic. ![]()
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