The Common Good Economy: How to Make Capitalism Work for Us All

《二十一世紀資本論》作者湯瑪斯·皮凱提推薦：「必讀之作。」

無論是水資源危機、普遍的貧窮問題，還是下一場全球大流行病，威脅人類生存的挑戰都需要集體行動來解決。然而，決策者在面對這些問題時，所使用的經濟模型卻缺乏一個關鍵要素：他們並未將「公共善」（common good）視為值得實現的核心目標。在這本具備宏大抱負且切中時局的作品中，經濟學家瑪麗安娜·瑪祖卡托提出以「公共善」為核心的新經濟理論，對主流經濟思維進行了矯正。她展示了我們該如何超越僅在邊緣微調市場的做法，進而重塑市場機制——使其體現「互惠」而非「榨取」、「集體主義」而非「個人主義」的原則。她指出，僅僅談論「公共財」（public goods）和「公地」（commons）是不夠的，我們必須真正實現「公共善」。瑪祖卡托汲取廣泛的哲學傳統，並結合全球各地孕育「公共善」萌芽的實際案例，揭示了公共善經濟學如何幫助我們系統性地轉型，建立起服務於所有人的社群與經濟體系。《公共善經濟》是一份振奮人心的號召，呼籲政府、企業界與每一位普通公民勇於採取行動，共同實現更廣泛的公共利益。

From the award-winning author of The Entrepreneurial State and Mission Economy, an inspiring call to solve our deepest challenges―from inequality to climate change―by embracing a radical new approach to economics and the economy.

"A vital read." ―Thomas Piketty, New York Times bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Whether it’s the water crisis, widespread poverty, or the next global pandemic, the problems that threaten humanity require collective action. But policymakers are confronting these problems armed with economic models that are missing one crucial element: They do not treat the common good as an objective worth achieving.

In this ambitious and timely book, economist Mariana Mazzucato issues a corrective to prevailing economic thinking by defining a new theory of economics with the common good at its center. She shows how to go beyond fixing markets around the edges and instead reshape them to embody principles of reciprocity rather than extraction, and collectivism rather than individualism. It is not enough, she argues, to talk about “public goods” and the “commons”; we must truly achieve the “common good.”

Drawing on wide-ranging philosophical traditions and global examples where seeds of the common good are found, Mazzucato reveals how common-good economics can help systematically transform how we build community and an economy that serves all.

The Common Good Economy is a stirring call for governments, the private sector, and everyday people to act boldly to achieve the greater good.