Ever get a feeling that things are just, stuck? Even before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capitalism seems to have jolted and stuttered through many of the problems societies around the world faced. It has consistently struggled to find satisfactory answers to social issues. Disease, inequality, the digital divide and, perhaps most blatantly, the environmental crisis. Capitalism has few tools to tackle these issues in even, effective ways. 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 some of the biggest problems of our time. She compellingly argues for a rethink of the capacities and role of government within the economy and society, and above all recover a sense of public purpose. Mission Economy, whose ideas are already being adopted around the world, offers a way out of our impasse to a more optimistic future. Check out the rest of our society and culture books Who wrote it? Mariana Mazzucato How does it come? Hardback 25.5 x 22 x 1.3cm.