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Carnival economics: Dispatches from Rio, Brasília and Salvador

Closing out 2025: Don’t give up on missions just yet, Prime Minister!

School meals as moonshots

Efficiency at what and for whom? How DOGE represents the latest chapter in the fifty year project to dismantle the state

From Seville to Belem to Johannesburg

The Trump vacuum

Autumn and spring budget letters

Making the just transition just

AI for what?

Building an entrepreneurial state in the UK

Economics of water: connecting the drops

Reimagining financing for development: from filling gaps to shaping the future

Beyond purpose-washing: making public-private partnerships work

Why we need an economics of the common good

Theory meets practice: getting missions right

Welcome to Mission Economics

Big Cons: How consultancy firms undermine governments

Putting education at the heart of the economy

Mayors, urbanists, educators and designers discuss urban futures at La Biennale di Venezia

A mission-oriented approach to renewing British Columbia’s economy

A little less conversation, a little more action

It’s time for enhanced disclosures on Big Tech’s sources of profits and monetization

The Entrepreneurial State: the important role of government in innovation

I have seen the next big thing, and it is Mariana Mazzucato

Seeing the bigger picture at the BBC

A next generation industrial strategy for Germany

Climate missions in a COVID-19 world

Public investments in a green recovery from COVID-19: What steps can Canada take?

A challenge led recovery: the role of mission oriented industrial strategy

A green economic renewal after the COVID-19 crisis

Reshaping global health systems in response to COVID-19

The path to COVID recovery: the urgent need for the EU Green Deal and a new approach to Industrial Strategy