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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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