Mariana Mazzucato is a towering figure in contemporary economics, known best for her work on the entrepreneurial state and mission-oriented, ‘moonshot’ economics. Her congregation is broad, ranging from an inward-bound Andy Burnham, to the Pope, to the organisers of Brazil’s carnival, and Marco Rubio on the right of US politics. Ash Sarkar sat down with Mariana Mazzucato in front of a live audience at EartH Theatre in Hackney, to test out the ideas in her new book, The Common Good Economy.

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