Rethinking Capitalism

"Thought provoking and fresh - this book challenges how we think about economics.
Gillian Tett, Financial Times

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Western capitalism is in crisis. For decades investment has been falling, living standards have stagnated or declined, and inequality has risen dramatically. Economic policy has neither reformed the financial system nor restored stable growth. Climate change meanwhile poses increasing risks to future prosperity.

In this book some of the worlds leading economists propose new ways of thinking about capitalism. In clear and compelling prose, each chapter shows how todays deep economic problems reflect the inadequacies of orthodox economic theory and the failure of policies informed by it. The chapters examine a range of contemporary economic issues, including fiscal and monetary policy, financial markets and business behaviour, inequality and privatisation, and innovation and environmental change. The authors set out alternative economic approaches which better explain how capitalism works, why it often doesnt, and how it can be made more innovative, inclusive and sustainable. Outlining a series of far-reaching policy reforms,Rethinking Capitalism offers a powerful challenge to mainstream economic debate, and new ideas to transform it.

Michael Jacobs is Visiting Professor in the School of Public Policy at University College London.

ProfessorMariana Mazzucato (PhD) holds the Chair in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London (UCL) where she is establishing a new Institute for Innovation& Public Purpose (launching Autumn 2017).

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Michael Jacobs is Visiting Professor in theSchool of Public Policy and Department of Political Science at University College London. An environmental economist and political theorist, his work has focused on the political economy of environmental change. His books includeThe Green Economy: Environment, Sustainable Development and the Politics of the Future (Pluto Press, 1991),Greening the Millennium? The New Politics of the Environment(ed, Blackwell, 1997),The Politics of the Real World(Earthscan 1996) andPaying for Progress: A New Politics of Tax for Public Spending(Fabian Society 2000).

From 2004-10 he was a Special Adviser to the UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, responsible for domestic and international policy on environment, energy and climate change, and before that (2004-2007) a member of the Council of Economic Advisers at the UK Treasury. He was formerly General Secretary of theFabian Society, Co-Editor ofThe Political Quarterly and a research fellow at Lancaster University and the London School of Economics. He has also been a Visiting Professor at theGrantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the LSE, a Visiting Fellow at theInstitute for Public Policy Research and Senior Adviser to theGlobal Commission on the Economy and Climate, which he helped to found.

ProfessorMariana Mazzucato (PhD) holds the Chair in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London (UCL) where she is establishing a newInstitute for Innovation& Public Purpose (launching Autumn 2017). Mazzucatos highly-acclaimed bookThe Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths (Anthem 2013;Public Affairs, 2015) was on the2013 Books of the Year list of theFinancial Times. She is winner of the 2014New Statesman SPERI Prize in Political Economy and the 2015 Hans-Matthöfer-Preis and in 2013 she was named as one of the '3 most important thinkers about innovation' in the New Republic.

She has advised policy makers around the world on innovation-led growth and is currently a member of the Scottish Governments Council of Economic Advisors; the World Economic Forums Council on the Economics of Innovation and SITRAs (Finnish Innovation Fund) Advisory Panel.  Her current research projects include two funded by the EC Horizon 2020 programme:Innovation-fuelled, Sustainable, Inclusive Growth (ISIGrowth) andDistributed Global Financial Systems for Society (Dolfins) and a new project onRethinking Medical Innovation by the Open Society Foundations. Her recent research includes projects funded by the Ford Foundation and the Institute for New Economic Thinking, and work commissioned by NASA, the European Space Agency and the Brazilian Ministry for Science and Technology.

She is currently writingThe Value of Everythingwhich will be published by Penguins Allen Lane in 2017.

1:Rethinking Capitalism: An Introduction (Michael Jacobs and Mariana Mazzucato)

2:The Failure of Austerity: Rethinking Fiscal Policy(Stephanie Kelton)

3:Understanding Money and Macroeconomic Policy(L. Randall Wray and Yeva Nersisyan)

4:The Costs of Short-termism (Andrew Haldane)

5:Innovative Enterprise and the Theory of the Firm(William Lazonick)

6: Innovation, the State and Patient Capital (Mariana Mazzucato)

7: Investment-led Growth: A Solution to the European Crisis (Stephany Griffith-Jones and Giovanni Cozzi)

8:Inequality and Economic Growth (Joseph Stiglitz)

9:The Paradoxes of Privatisation and Public Service Outsourcing (Colin Crouch)

10:Decarbonisation: Innovation and the Economics of Climate Change (Dimitri Zenghelis)

11:Capitalism, Technology and a Green Global Golden Age: The Role of History in Helping to Shape the Future (Carlota Perez)