Countries around the world are grappling with how to handle the cost of housing, providing health care for an aging population and how to fund the big infrastructure changes needed to deal with the poly-crisis of climate change, with the competing demands for spending on defence. These are the kinds of challenges renowned economist Mariana Mazzucato is focused on, and she’s convinced governments can do better than simply step in where markets fail.  Her latest book ‘The Common Good Economy  - a new compass’  presents a road map for tackling the urgent challenges before us. 

• Guest: Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London and author of The Common Good Economy: A New Compass.
• Producer: Catherine Zengerer