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Do you wish politician set out long-term missions, rather than short-term headline-grabbing pledges?

Well, if so, you agree with my guest on political thinking this week,

or the world's most influential economists, Mariana Mazzakartu,

who's been deployed by this Conservative government, the Scottish government, by South Africa, Brazil,

the EU and many others besides as she tries to influence the way politicians think about what

they promised.

She's someone who's advised labour at the highest level.

Indeed, her thinking, her writing, about the need for government to set bold and ambitious missions underlies much of what the

Labour leader says.

I spoke to before Kiastama abandoned that headline pledge to invest 28 billion pounds on his green prosperity plan.

What she had to say though remains as relevant now as it did then?

Mariana Mazzakato, welcome to political thinking.

I guess this week, like every other week is pretty busy, what's on the agenda this week?

So besides running my 60 person Institute at University College London on Wednesday I'm

off to Davos for two days on the back of that I'm meeting with the Global Commission on

the Economics of Water, which I co-chair. And the next week I'm going to Columbia,

the country, not the university, to work with the President Petro's team around really rethinking government in order to put

climate at the center of a green economic transition.

So it's another incredibly hectic week.

Why do you think you've got the influence you've got?

It's a good question actually.

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