'The most important book about our economy and society to be published in my lifetime' Irvine
Welsh From Paul Mason the award-winning Channel 4 presenter Postcapitalism is a guide to our
era of seismic economic change and how we can build a more equal society. Over the past two
centuries or so capitalism has undergone continual change - economic cycles that lurch from
boom to bust - and has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Surveying this turbulent
history Paul Mason wonders whether today we are on the brink of a change so big so profound
that this time capitalism itself the immensely complex system by which entire societies
function has reached its limits and is changing into something wholly new. At the heart of
this change is information technology: a revolution that as Mason shows has the potential to
reshape utterly our familiar notions of work production and value and to destroy an economy
based on markets and private ownership - in fact he contends it is already doing so. In this
groundbreaking Sunday Times top ten book Mason shows how from the ashes of the recent
financial crisis we have the chance to create a more socially just and sustainable global
economy.
