Identifying fake fish, cleaning up polluted canals, improving science education – these are some of the jobs that governments are getting done by mobilising the profit motive. Over the past twenty-five years, partnerships between government and business have grown into an industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars, but as the two sectors grow ever closer together, innovative agencies are finding new ways to have private companies get things done for the common good. Traditional…
How governments can use the profit motive to make the world a better place
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