Episode 4: Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy

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In this episode, Professor Jeffrey Sachs speaks with Dr. Mariana
Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public
Value and Founding Director of the Institute for Innovation and
Public Purpose at University College London, about her new book
Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism.


Professors Sachs and Mazzucato discuss the history of public
ambition embodied in the American moon landing and the importance
of boldly reimagining the capacities and role of government to
solve today's "wicked problems" and recover a sense of public
purpose. 


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Footnotes:


Moonshot 

Apollo Program 

Project Mercury

Gemini Program

President John F. Kennedy's address to Joint Session of
Congress, 25 May 1961

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Biography of Gus Grissom

Biography of Alan Shepard

Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business
Technology Transfer (STTR) program

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency 

COVID-19 pandemic

mRNA vaccines

National Institutes of Health (NHI) 

Biography of Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

Bayh-Dole Act

Gilead’s hepatitis C drug scandal

Mondragon Corporation

Trade and Labor Unions

Fridays for the Future

European Green Deal



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