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Fixing climate change, poverty and ocean plastic requires a 'Moonshot' approach, economist Mariana Mazzucato says Posted ThuThursday 1 The 'Moonshot' approach can help us fix the problems of today, says economist Mariana Mazzucato. ( Print text only Cancel Nearly six decades ago, President John F Kennedy's famous "Moonshot speech" rallied the US public behind the Apollo mission to send astronauts to the Moon. "We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard," are the inspirational words that continue to be associated wi...

A moon shot model for the transformation of capitalism PHOTOGRAPHS BY Jeff Frost A helicopter surveyed the area with a searchlight during the Lake Fire in the San Bernardino National Forest near Big Bear Lake, California, in 2015. Capitalism is facing three major crises. A pandemic-induced health crisis has rapidly ignited an economic crisis with yet unknown consequences for financial stability, and all of this is playing out against the backdrop of a climate crisis that cannot be addressed under the rubric of business as usual. It may be hard to cast your mind back, but in January 2020, the ...

Do not defund the BBC Feb 28,2021 - Last updated at Feb 28,2021 LONDON  —  In last year’s Reith Lectures, the BBC’s annual radio series, former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney observes that, since the 2008 financial crisis, norms and institutions have increasingly been defined by their monetary value. What is often missing from this discussion of price, is how to capture the real worth of the public institutions that enrich us. It is fitting that Carney makes this point on a BBC programme. After all, the BBC was the first public broadcaster to incorporate the notion of “public ...

Women are a rarity at the highest level of economic policy-making in Britain. There has still never been a female Chancellor, although Labour's current shadow Anneliese Dodds would like to change that. And the current group in the top jobs at the Bank of England are an old boys club. So it is hugely fascinating that Italian-born, American-educated University College London big thinker Mariana Mazzucato, 52, has risen above the crowd as one of the most agile thinkers on post-Brexit, post-Covid Britain. Reach for the stars: Economist Mariana Mazzucato (pictured) says we need the same level of b...

‘Aspen Ideas: RE$ET’ features economists, business leaders, entrepreneurs and others from Main Street America Staff report The Aspen Institute will host two days of online programming on the current state and future of the American economy next week. Dubbed “Aspen Ideas: RE$ET,” the free participatory event will run Monday and Tuesday, featuring leading economists, business leaders, entrepreneurs and voices from main streets across the U.S. In the wake of a pandemic-induced recession that has disproportionately impacted people of color, small businesses, front-line workers and women, ...