[ Moonshots and the New Industrial Policy: Questioning the Mission Economy, edited by Magnus Henrekson, Christian Sandström, and Mikael Stenkula] This book arrives at a moment when confidence in state-led economic direction has not merely returned but surged with unusual intellectual force. The revival owes much to the influence of Mariana Mazzucato, whose vision of the “mission economy” has rebranded government as an entrepreneurial actor, capable of shaping markets rather than merely correcting them. What makes this resurgence especially striking is its ideological breadth. Institutions such