Their mission is to change the way the world thinks about economics. They work to develop and encourage the new consensus that is emerging across academia, social movements, business and government—a consensus that affirms that humanity can build a healthy, sustainable and prosperous means of making a living for itself.

New Consensus is a think tank that works on plans to directly tackle the largest problems facing humanity. They aim to solve problems like climate change, economic stagnation, racial and rural wealth gaps, and more by proposing solutions modeled after mass economic mobilizations of the past. To do this, they draw on successful examples from not only America's own history, but also advanced economies around the world,

Their guiding principle at New Consensus is that it is possible to create the best world they can conceive of. A world where everyone can live free, prosperous lives. Humanity has everything it needs to build that world in a single generation: billions of creative, hard working people, technology that already can allow us to make a comfortable living safely and sustainably, and unlimited energy from the sun that they can now harness to power that technology.