
How to Make Better Economic Policy Choices
Dec 21, 2020 & explain why static cost-benefit analysis often leads to policy errors with serious long-term consequences.
Mariana Mazzucato, Professor of the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London and Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, is Chair of the World Health Organization's Council on the Economics of Health for All. She is the author of The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy, The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths, and the forthcoming Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism (Allen Lane, January 2021).
Dec 21, 2020 & explain why static cost-benefit analysis often leads to policy errors with serious long-term consequences.
Dec 8, 2020 , et al. urge monetary policymakers to align their operations fully with the goal of net-zero carbon emissions.
Dec 1, 2020 , et al. examine the deeper systemic problems lurking behind recent biomedical progress toward defeating COVID-19.
Oct 19, 2020 & view the UK prime minister's plan for a testing "moonshot" as an appropriate ambition gone badly awry.
Oct 1, 2020 , et al. call for a mission-oriented push to administer frequent universal COVID-19 testing worldwide.
Tackling the COVID-19 pandemic and engineering an economic recovery are only two of the challenges facing new US President Joe Biden. Amid deep social divisions and the continued threat of right-wing extremist violence, Biden must also try to re-establish democratic political norms and restore trust in American leadership at home and abroad.