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DESCRIPTION:For our May meeting we’ll be reading Part I and Part II of\n\nMission 
 Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism by Marianna 
 Mazzucato\n\nFor our June meeting we will be finishing the 
 book.\n\n\n\nCapitalism is in crisis. The rich have gotten richer—the 1 
 percent, those with more than $1 million, own 44 percent of the world's 
 wealth—while climate change is transforming—and in some cases wiping 
 out—life on the planet. We are plagued by crises threatening our lives, 
 and this situation is unsustainable. But how do we fix these problems 
 decades in the making?\n\nMission Economy looks at the grand challenges 
 facing us in a radically new way. Global warming, pollution, dementia, 
 obesity, gun violence, mobility—these environmental, health, and social 
 dilemmas are huge, complex, and have no simple solutions. Mariana Mazzucato 
 argues we need to think bigger and mobilize our resources in a way that is 
 as bold as inspirational as the moon landing—this time to the most 
 ‘wicked’ social problems of our time.. We can only begin to find 
 answers if we fundamentally restructure capitalism to make it inclusive, 
 sustainable, and driven by innovation that tackles concrete problems from 
 the digital divide, to health pandemics, to our polluted cities. That means 
 changing government tools and culture, creating new markers of corporate 
 governance, and ensuring that corporations, society, and the government 
 coalesce to share a common goal.\n\nWe did it to go to the moon. We can do 
 it again to fix our problems and improve the lives of every one of us. We 
 simply can no longer afford not to.\n\nMariana Mazzucato, PhD, is a 
 professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University 
 College London, where she is the founding director of the UCL Institute for 
 Innovation & Public Purpose. She has written, edited, or co-authored 
 numerous books, articles, and papers on policy, capitalism, economics, and 
 innovation, including The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. 
 Private Sector Myths and The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the 
 Global Economy.\n\nShe advises policy makers worldwide and is currently a 
 member of the South African Presidential Economic Advisory Council, the 
 Scottish Government’s Council of Economic Advisors; the UN’s Committee 
 for Development Policy, and the OECD’s Secretary General’s Advisory 
 Group on a New Growth Narrative. She is also a Special Advisor to the 
 Italian Prime Minister, and a Special Advisor for the EC Commissioner for 
 Research, Science and 
 Innovation\n\n————————————————————————\n\nStrike 
 Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new 
 and radical economic thinking. Previous readings have included Doughnut 
 Economics, Limits, Banking on the People, Capital and Its 
 Discontents, How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century, The 
 Deficit Myth,  Revenge Capitalism, the Edge of Chaos blog symposium , 
 Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons,, and The 
 Optimist's Telescope.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/29/18842829.php
SUMMARY:Strike Debt Bay Area Book Group: Mission Economy – A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
LOCATION:We continue to meet via Zoom.\nEmail strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com for the 
 invite.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/05/29/18842829.php
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