Mariana Mazzucato

As Davos debates dialogue and stakeholder capitalism, US resource grabs and weak public-private contracts expose the gap between rhetoric and reality in global economic governance

Growth alone is not a moral mission. For Keir Starmer's government, making peace - not GDP - the organising principle could align values, stability and prosperity

To find our way back to shore, we urgently need a new financial architecture that can provide the policy and fiscal space to support implementation and build state capacity

In the 1990s, Italy initiated the largest privatisation programme in continental Europe, dismantling much of its industrial backbone instead of fostering innovation

A central bank can serve as more than just a regulator, by influencing or even creating shared infrastructure

As countries cavil over specific clauses in a draft pandemic treaty, there is good reason to fear that the document will be whittled down so much that it becomes useless

For the green initiative to get off the ground, voters first need to be convinced that such investments are socially beneficial

Sustainable growth requires an industrial policy that prioritises outcomes like clean growth and healthy ageing, moving away from the traditional focus on sectors

The economy will not grow in a socially desirable direction on its own

This small and wealthy group with its outsize power is uniquely positioned to help low-income countries manage deteriorating macroeconomic conditions

A paradigm shift in policy-making is underway, but its success depends on concrete reforms and the creation of new mission-driven institutions

Through local taxation, wealth funds can be created, with the returns reinvested in the community

Vaccine rollout in US - and even more so in Europe - shows that it is just as important to get the details of public-private partnerships right as it is to start with an ambitious overall objective

The UK urgently needs a dynamic, entrepreneurial mission-setting state to confront the triple crisis of Covid-19, rising inequality, and climate change