Governing the economics of the common good: from correcting market failures to shaping collective goals

Mariana Mazzucato

Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 2024, vol. 27, issue 1, 1-24

Abstract: To meet today’s grand challenges, economics requires an understanding of how common objectives may be collaboratively set and met. Tied to the assumption that the state can, at best, fix market failures and is always at risk of “capture”, economic theory has been unable to offer such a framework. To move beyond such limiting assumptions, the article provides a renewed conception of the common good, going beyond the classic public good and commons approach, as a way of steering and shaping (rather than just fixing) the economy towards collective goals.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/17487870.2023.2280969

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