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Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures and cohost of the "Pitchfork Economics" podcast with Nick Hanauer and David Goldstein.
In the latest episode, they spoke with economist Mariana Mazzucato on government's role in the economy.
Mazzucato says collaboration between government and corporations can boost economic "outcomes as opposed to just output."
When you trim away all the complications and high-minded theories, the single mission statement of an economy under capitalism is to grow. We say an economy is healthy when it's adding jobs, productivity, and profits, and we say an economy is sick when it's contracting, losing jobs, and failing to hit profitability markers.