The Common Good Economy

A must read -- Thomas Piketty, author of A Brief History of Equality
In a world increasingly characterized by pessimism and fear, this book provides a much-needed positive perspective on how economies can be shaped towards the common good. This is not a Utopian ideal: it is possible with the collective efforts of workers and civil society to re-orient economic governance in very specific ways. Once again, Mazzucato provides a vision and a road map to push us from passivity to action -- Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
An ambitious book ... Mazzucato urges us to reject altogether the idea of patching up “market failures”, or treating social and economic problems as nasty but inevitable side-effects of economic growth, to be tackled with the odd taxpayer-funded side project -- Heather Stewart * Guardian *