On Sale: Sep 8, 2026
Page Count: 352 pages
Publisher: Basic Venture
ISBN-13: 9781541609341

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From the award-winning author of The Entrepreneurial State and Mission Economy, an inspiring call to solve our deepest challenges—from inequality to climate change—by embracing a radical new approach to economics and the economy

Whether it’s the water crisis, widespread poverty, or the next global pandemic, the problems that threaten humanity require collective action. But policymakers are confronting these problems armed with economic models that are missing one crucial element: They do not treat the common good as an objective worth achieving.

In this ambitious and timely new book, economist Mariana Mazzucato issues a corrective to prevailing economic thinking by defining a new theory of economics with the common good at its center. She shows how to go beyond fixing markets around the edges and instead reshape them to embody principles of reciprocity rather than extraction, and collectivism rather than individualism. It is not enough, she argues, to talk about “public goods” and the “commons”; we must truly achieve the “common good.” Drawing on wide-ranging philosophical traditions and global examples where seeds of the common good are found, Mazzucato reveals how common-good economics can help systematically transform how we build community and an economy that serves all.

The Common Good Economy is a stirring call for governments, the private sector, and everyday people to act boldly to achieve the greater good.

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Mariana Mazzucato (CBE) is a professor at University College London (UCL), where she is also founding director of the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. She is the author of the highly acclaimed books The Entrepreneurial State, The Value of Everything, and Mission Economy, and coauthor of The Big Con. She has won multiple awards, including the Leontief Award for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. She lives in the UK.

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Mariana Mazzucato

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Mariana Mazzucato is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL) where she is also Founder and Director of the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. She is author of the highly-acclaimed book The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths, and winner of the 2014 New Statesman SPERI Prize in Political Economy, the 2015 Hans-Matthöfer-Preis and the 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. She has advised policymakers around the world on how to deliver ‘smart’, inclusive and sustainable growth. In 2013 she was named as one of the ‘3 most important thinkers about innovation’ in the New Republic.

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