Rethinking Capitalism
Economics and Policy for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth
Political Quarterly Monograph Series

"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 world?s leading economists propose new ways of thinking about capitalism. In clear and compelling prose, each chapter shows how today?s 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 doesn?t, 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.  

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)

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

Professor Mariana 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 the School 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 include The 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) and Paying for Progress: A New Politics of Tax for Public Spending (Fabian Society 2000).