Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
by Paul Mason · 29 Jul 2015 · 378pp · 110,518 words
Paul Mason * * * POSTCAPITALISM A Guide to Our Future Contents Introduction PART I 1 Neoliberalism is Broken 2 Long Waves, Short Memories 3 Was Marx Right? 4 The
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) 54. See P. Mason, ‘WTF is Eleni Haifa?’, 20 December 2014, http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/1801-wtf-is-eleni-haifa-a-new-essay-by-paul-mason 6. TOWARDS THE FREE MACHINE 1. http://www.sns.gov.uk/Simd/Simd.aspx 2. http://www.econlib.org/library/Smith/smWN2.html#B.I
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5. See P. Mason, ‘WTF is Eleni Haifa?’, 20 December 2014, http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/1801-wtf-is-eleni-haifa-a-new-essay-by-paul-mason 6. D. A. Galbi, ‘Economic Change and Sex Discrimination in the Early English Cotton Factories’, 1994, http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=239564
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, for example, P. Mason, ‘WTF is Eleni Haifa?’, 20 December 2014, http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/1801-wtf-is-eleni-haifa-a-new-essay-by-paul-mason 4. V. Kostakis and M. Bauwens, Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy (London, 2014) 5. M. Wark, A Hacker Manifesto (Cambridge MA
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Allen Lane is part of the Penguin Random House group of companies whose addresses can be found at global.penguinrandomhouse.com. First published 2015 Copyright © Paul Mason, 2015 Cover design: Keenan The moral right of the author has been asserted ISBN: 978-0-141-97530-6 * It is complicated by the fact
Why It's Still Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions
by Paul Mason · 30 Sep 2013 · 357pp · 99,684 words
WHY IT’S STILL KICKING OFF EVERYWHERE The New Global Revolutions Revised and Updated Second Edition PAUL MASON Dedication To my mother Contents Cover Title Page Dedication Introduction 1.‘Now There Is Freedom’: Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Not Over 2.Nobody Saw
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presidency of George W. Bush’, New York Times Magazine, 17 October 2004. 13.Anthony Giddens, ‘My chat with the colonel’, Guardian, 9 March 2007. 14.Paul Mason, Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed, London 2010, p. 233. 15.Quoted in Y. Kallianos, ‘December as an event in Greek radical polities
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refrained from rioting at the launch party of the book, in London’s Waterloo in January 2012, despite it being closed down by the authorities. Paul Mason November 2012 Index Abdelrahman, Sarah, @sarrahsworld 11–12, 14, 135 Abdul, Rifat 22 academic research 146 activism: dynamic of 138; social networks impact on 138
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191 Zweig, Stefan 128, 132–33, 152, 176 Copyright This revised and updated second edition first published by Verso 2013 First published by Verso 2012 © Paul Mason 2012, 2013 All rights reserved The moral rights of the author have been asserted Verso UK: 6 Meard Street, London W1F 0EG US: 20 Jay
Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age
by Manuel Castells · 19 Aug 2012 · 291pp · 90,200 words
would like to live in. NOTES 1. For an excellent, analytical, and informed overview of the social movements that sprung up everywhere in 2011, see Paul Mason, Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions (2012, Verso, London). 2. For my characterization of the network society, see my book, The
Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet
by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider · 14 Aug 2017 · 237pp · 67,154 words
Biewald (CrowdFlower)—who, in the absence of government regulation and resistance from workers, will simply exploit their undervalued workers. I’m all on board for Paul Mason’s and Kathi Weeks’ visions for a post-capitalist, post-work future where universal basic income will rule the way we think about life opportunities
Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class
by Noam Scheiber · 6 Apr 2026 · 399pp · 120,332 words
the globe, political unrest, even revolution, has ensued once the college-educated make common cause with the working class and the poor. The British journalist Paul Mason identified “the graduate with no future” as a key actor in the political turmoil that followed the 2008 financial crisis and toppled governments in Spain
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Work,” The New York Times, May 25, 2025, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/business/amazon-ai-coders.html. “the graduate with no future”: Paul Mason, Why It’s Still Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions (London: Verso, 2013), 66. “It is educated young people”: Mason, Why It’s Still
Rebooting Democracy: A Citizen's Guide to Reinventing Politics
by Manuel Arriaga · 1 Jan 2014 · 124pp · 30,520 words
, the focus was strictly on electoral reform, but there is, of course, no reason to restrict the assembly’s mandate in that way. Notes [i] Paul Mason’s Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions offers a glimpse into this other reality. [ii] For the opposite argument, see David
Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
by Douglas Rushkoff · 7 Sep 2022 · 205pp · 61,903 words
. Schwab wants us to trust them with this great responsibility over all of our welfare. Lifting language from books by new economics theorists such as Paul Mason, Kate Rayworth, and even myself, Schwab claims the concept of “stakeholder capitalism,” which will acknowledge the interests not only of shareholders but workers and locals
How Democracy Ends
by David Runciman · 9 May 2018 · 245pp · 72,893 words
oppressor to be overcome is not the redistributive state but the capitalist free market. Left liberationists want to find the escape route from money power. Paul Mason, in his 2015 book Postcapitalism, writes about the emancipatory potential of information technology with the zeal of a true libertarian. ‘With the rise of the
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. We ought to welcome it. Instead of trying to avoid a leap into the unknown, we should recognise it as the precondition of meaningful change. Paul Mason writes that in the short term the aim of contemporary politics should be ‘not to reduce complexity … but to promote the most complex form of
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who supported ‘Old Labour’, former Greens, people who had voted Plaid or other parties out of desperation for a decent alternative, left-wing journalists like Paul Mason, and leading union officials such as Matt Wrack of the Fire Brigades Union and Jennie Formby of Unite. This was the coalition which had backed
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dock strike had opened an era of workplace revolutions. The trade union itself could become a mini-commune: training and educating workers for self-government’. Paul Mason, Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global, London: Vintage Books, 2007, p. 117. 11Ralph Miliband, Parliamentary Socialism: A Study in the
Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
by Adam Greenfield · 29 May 2017 · 410pp · 119,823 words
becomes widespread are inherently and powerfully erosive of capitalism as we have known it. These titles, notably Jeremy Rifkin’s The Zero Marginal Cost Society, Paul Mason’s Postcapitalism, and Srnicek and Williams’s Inventing the Future, hold that as fabricator prices continue to fall and the devices become more widely distributed
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. 6.Jeremy Rifkin, The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014; Paul Mason, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future, London: Allen Lane, 2015; Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work, London
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, 101 Pokémon Go, 63–5, 76, 79 Polari, 311 policy network, 264 Pollock, Jackson, 261 Pony Express, 256 porosity, 28, 173 POSIWID, 155, 302 Postcapitalism (Paul Mason), 88 power/knowledge, 62 predictive policing, 227, 230, 232, 235 PredPol, 229, 231, 236, 244, 254 proof-of-work, 128–30, 140–1, 143, 290
The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay
by Guy Standing · 13 Jul 2016 · 443pp · 98,113 words
The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-First Century
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The New Snobbery
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by Branko Milanovic · 23 Sep 2019
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Automation and the Future of Work
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Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
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Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend
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Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
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Reset: How to Restart Your Life and Get F.U. Money: The Unconventional Early Retirement Plan for Midlife Careerists Who Want to Be Happy
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The Production of Money: How to Break the Power of Banks
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A Pelican Introduction: Basic Income
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The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World
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Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
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The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction
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Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe
by Antony Loewenstein · 1 Sep 2015 · 464pp · 121,983 words
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100
by Michio Kaku · 15 Mar 2011 · 523pp · 148,929 words
What Went Wrong: How the 1% Hijacked the American Middle Class . . . And What Other Countries Got Right
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Who Will Defend Europe?: An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent
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Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
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Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk
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150 Movies You Should Die Before You See
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The Cost of Inequality: Why Economic Equality Is Essential for Recovery
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Adam Smith: Father of Economics
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Uncomfortably Off: Why the Top 10% of Earners Should Care About Inequality
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Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI
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The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It
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Give People Money
by Annie Lowrey · 10 Jul 2018 · 242pp · 73,728 words
Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech
by Jamie Susskind · 3 Sep 2018 · 533pp
As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age
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How Will Capitalism End?
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Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
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Brexit, No Exit: Why in the End Britain Won't Leave Europe
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Likewar: The Weaponization of Social Media
by Peter Warren Singer and Emerson T. Brooking · 15 Mar 2018
World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
by Franklin Foer · 31 Aug 2017 · 281pp · 71,242 words
Cities Are Good for You: The Genius of the Metropolis
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12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next
by Jeanette Winterson · 15 Mar 2021 · 256pp · 73,068 words
Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats
by Maya Goodfellow · 5 Nov 2019 · 273pp · 83,802 words
Radicals Chasing Utopia: Inside the Rogue Movements Trying to Change the World
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Humankind: A Hopeful History
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Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem
by Tim Shipman · 30 Nov 2017 · 721pp · 238,678 words
The Global Minotaur
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Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire
by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian · 1 Nov 2012
Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code
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