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
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
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 Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-First Century
by Ryan Avent · 20 Sep 2016 · 323pp · 90,868 words
everyone in society working. Utopia might, then, seem to be waiting just over the horizon (as a number of recent books, such as Postcapitalism by Paul Mason,13 argue); all that must be managed is the slow reduction of hours devoted to menial work, combined with the distribution across society of the
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
Corbyn
by Richard Seymour
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
Home: Why Public Housing Is the Answer
by Eoin Ó Broin · 5 May 2019 · 301pp · 77,626 words
and the question they face is this: are we to see homes as places to generate rent and interest from, or as places to live?’ Paul Mason, journalist and author of PostCapitalism: A Guide to our Future ‘A wide ranging and thorough analysis of where we have gone wrong in housing in
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Ireland. Given that I am a Sinn Féin TD and committed Irish republican I doubt you need me to explain the rationale for this. Preface Paul Mason Over the past thirty years, Governments all across the world began to insert market mechanisms and market norms of behaviour into many parts of society
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, and the question they face is this: are we to see homes as places to generate rent and interest from, or as places to live? Paul Mason is a British journalist and author of the book Postcapitalism: A Guide to our Future Overture Inadequate Language Every day our attention is drawn to
The New Snobbery
by David Skelton · 28 Jun 2021 · 226pp · 58,341 words
*nkers.’ Labour MP, September 20201 ‘An ex-miner sitting in the pub calling migrants cockroaches … is not the [sort of] person we are interested in.’ Paul Mason, 20192 ‘The proletariat has discredited itself terribly.’ Engels to Marx in the 1860s as working-class voters supported ‘reactionary’ parties following the extension of suffrage
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flag wavers claim to champion the working class at the same time as denouncing them in front of audiences of radicalised middle-class professionals. Commentator Paul Mason, for example, indulged in crude caricature about retired coal miners holding reactionary opinions and went on to argue that the modern left should not be
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w*nkers” during Rule Britannia row’, New European, 26 August 2020. 2 Rachel Wearmouth, ‘Labour should ignore voters who “hate blacks, women and gays”, says Paul Mason’, HuffingtonPost, 29 May 2019. 3 Engels to Marx, written on 18 November 1868. 4 Rajeev Syal, ‘Disproportionate number of Labour’s new members are wealthy
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, 2019. 19 Thomas Frank, Listen, Liberal: Or, Whatever Happened to the Party of the People (London: Scribe Publications, 2016). 20 Interview with Newsweek, 1970. 21 Paul Mason, ‘Corbynism is over – Labour’s next leader must unite the centre and the left’, New Statesman, 13 December 2019. 22 Engels to Marx, 18 November
The Corruption of Capitalism: Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay
by Guy Standing · 13 Jul 2016 · 443pp · 98,113 words
higher still today. Yet the internet-based technological revolution has reopened age-old visions of machine domination. Some are utopian, such as the postcapitalism of Paul Mason, imagining an era of free information and information sharing.17 Some are decidedly dystopian, where the robots – or rather their owners – are in control and
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within the next 20 years’, Economic Collapse, 30 September 2013; R. B. Freeman, ‘Who owns the robots rules the world’, IZA World of Labor, 2014. Paul Mason, for example, stated bluntly that IT ‘has reduced the need for work’. 19 C. B. Frey and M. A. Osborne, The Future of Employment: How
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crony capitalism, the existing situation is probably the most unfree market system in history. There has been a commodification of ideas, knowledge and information. While Paul Mason has interpreted the abundance of information as indicative of ‘postcapitalism’,52 the reality is actually a deepening penetration of capitalist logic and rules, in which
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. Sometimes called ‘cognitive capitalism’, the intellectual property system is in reality a system of rentier capitalism, resting on the contrived scarcity of the intellectual commons. Paul Mason claims that, although corporations seek to restrict the supply of information, it remains abundant, since ‘information goods are freely replicable’.36 If this were the
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they may reduce the numbers using subsidised public transport and accelerate the loss of public bus services. The real sharing economy is exciting some analysts. Paul Mason sees the emergence of commons-based peer production in the likes of Wikipedia, Linux, OpenStreetMap and Mozilla’s Firefox. In Spain, arts and culture collectives
The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski · 5 Mar 2019 · 202pp · 62,901 words
supply of consumer goods in a society not built on profit, but also warnings to would-be planners for the public good. British economic journalist Paul Mason suggests as much in his 2015 book, PostCapitalism, imagining a future where the data accumulated by Amazon and other large consumer-facing firms is used
The Nanny State Made Me: A Story of Britain and How to Save It
by Stuart Maconie · 5 Mar 2020 · 300pp · 106,520 words
sympathies are a matter of record. We know that Nick Robinson and Andrew Neil were both Conservatives in their politics while students, for instance, and Paul Mason, formerly of Newsnight, now makes no secret of his left-wing views (although this was the cause of some discomfort when he actually worked for
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.’ On stage in front of an audience in Manchester I put all this to someone who has thought and written great deal about it recently. Paul Mason is a former avant-garde composer, northern soul dancer, economics editor of the BBC and Channel 4 and now respected, polemical writer of the left
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president of the United States. Mark Zuckerberg will probably do everything in his murky, data-harvesting, email-leaking, algorithmic power to stop her though. As Paul Mason says, she has the tech giants in her sights. ‘Today’s big tech companies have too much power – too much power over our economy, our
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sense of grievance. I loathe the demonisation and mocking of the young that’s become the hallmark of a protected and petrified older generation. Like Paul Mason, who originally wanted to call his new book ‘The Snowflake Insurrection’, I think the young people of today are showing courage by taking on the
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Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World
by Branko Milanovic · 23 Sep 2019
of capitalistic operations is thus likely to become unlimited because it will include each of us and our mostly mundane daily activities. To quote from Paul Mason’s book Postcapitalism on the capitalism of the new “weightless” economy, “The ‘factory’ in cognitive capitalism is the whole of society” (2016, 139). Mason argues
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laborers, while almost three-quarters of those working in the English countryside at the same period were wage laborers (Vries 2013, 340). 18. In Postcapitalism, Paul Mason explains the rise of new commodities (like the commercialization of leisure) by a tendency of profits to go to zero and the inability to fully
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
by Sarah Jaffe · 26 Jan 2021 · 490pp · 153,455 words
their power. As Nixon and Reagan and their advisers once worried about an educated working class, so today’s politicians face uprisings of what journalist Paul Mason called “the graduates with no future.” In response, they have cracked down further on the university. In Britain the student movement of 2010 was a
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the brutality of “essential” work for those who had no choice but to keep going to their jobs despite the heightened danger. Those whom journalist Paul Mason famously called the “graduates with no future” are everywhere, and they are angry. Teachers across the United States began a strike wave in 2012 that
The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways
by Earl Swift · 8 Jun 2011 · 423pp · 129,831 words
,' and the Visit to the Factory Transformed," Design Issues 8, no. 2 (Spring 1992); Robert Coombs, "Norman Bel Geddes: Highways and Horizons," Perspecta 13 (1971); Paul Mason Fotsch, "The Building of a Superhighway Future at the New York World's Fair," Cultural Critique 48 (Spring 2001); "Tomorrow's America Modeled in 'Futurama
Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
by Rana Foroohar · 16 May 2016 · 515pp · 132,295 words
belief that we are heading towards an entirely new, postcapitalist society. What that might look like is anyone’s guess. Some, like British economic journalist Paul Mason, are relatively optimistic. His new book, Postcapitalism, argues that financialization is at the heart of wage stagnation and has been for decades. His focus on
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–2006.” 76. Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, trans. Ben Fowkes (New York: Penguin, 1992). 77. Some, like the British journalist and thinker Paul Mason, believe this change is coming soon. His book Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016) is a smart sketch of
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–36. 59. Author interview with Davis for this book. 60. Konczal and Abernathy, “Defining Financialization,” 31. 61. Author interview with Warren for this book. 62. Paul Mason, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016). 63. Foroohar, “Thomas Piketty: Marx 2.0.” 64. Author interview with Johnson for
The Production of Money: How to Break the Power of Banks
by Ann Pettifor · 27 Mar 2017 · 182pp · 53,802 words
with post-crisis reforms, but made no suggestions for structural changes to the international financial architecture and system. Neoliberalism – the dominant economic model – prevailed everywhere. Paul Mason wrote a book in 2009 called Meltdown with the subtitle: The End of the Age of Greed. How wrong he was. Ten years now from
Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
by Angela Nagle · 6 Jun 2017 · 122pp · 38,022 words
world. He argued that what he had been writing about for most his career – the networked society – had taken a radical new form. BBC journalist Paul Mason wrote Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere, documenting the revolutionaries in Tahrir Square, the Iranian ‘Twitter revolution’ and the heavily hashtagged Occupy Wall Street protests
Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
by Zeynep Tufekci · 14 May 2017 · 444pp · 130,646 words
Movement Studies 16, no. 1 (2017): 36–50. 2. John Chalcraft, “Horizontalism in the Egyptian Revolutionary Process,” Middle East Report, no. 262 (2012): 6–11; Paul Mason, Why It’s Still Kicking off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions (London: Verso, 2013); Marina Sitrin, “Horizontalism: From Argentina to Wall Street,” NACLA Report on
Where We Are: The State of Britain Now
by Roger Scruton · 16 Nov 2017 · 190pp · 56,531 words
. Barnett’s cavils fill only one shelf in the growing library of declinist literature. From Anthony Sampson’s attacks on the old-boy network to Paul Mason’s dismissal of the financial system, from Tom Nairn’s warnings of the break-up of Britain to the description by David Coates and others
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Lost Victory: British Dreams, British Realities, 1945–50, London, 1995. 7ibid., The Collapse of British Power, p. 37. 8Anthony Sampson, Anatomy of Britain, London, 1962; Paul Mason, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future, London, 2016; Tom Nairn, The Break-up of Britain, London, 1977; David Coates, writings listed on his website, davidcoates
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most valuable companies on the Fortune 500 index was an information technology company; in 2016 only one was not such a company. Some writers – notably Paul Mason in his book Postcapitalism – see these factors as marking a fundamental shift from the old capitalist economy, based on competition in the marketplace, to a
A Pelican Introduction: Basic Income
by Guy Standing · 3 May 2017 · 307pp · 82,680 words
and robotics will displace human labour to such an extent that there will be mass ‘technological unemployment’. Martin Ford, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, and Paul Mason are among those who have argued in influential books that a jobless future makes a basic income essential.12 The same concerns have added a
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
by Kurt Andersen · 14 Sep 2020 · 486pp · 150,849 words
was the disempowerment of workers vis-à-vis employers. A few years ago when I first read the book Postcapitalism by the British business journalist Paul Mason, I came across a paragraph that stopped me short because it seemed so hyperbolic and reductive. But now it seems to me very much closer
Automation and the Future of Work
by Aaron Benanav · 3 Nov 2020 · 175pp · 45,815 words
of the past decade support this hypothesis: ours has been the most broadly educated, most urban and most connected population in world history. As journalist Paul Mason notes, literate and mobile people “will not accept a future of high inequality and stagnant growth” on a planet with rising sea levels.4 Whether
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Left Review, no. 87, S2, May–June 2014, p. 48. 3 Among texts that attempt to take stock of these movements as a whole, see Paul Mason, Why It’s Still Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions, Verso, 2013; Manuel Castells, Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet
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Crash,” Guardian, October 29, 2019 and Robin Wright, “The Story of 2019: Protests in Every Corner of the Globe,” New Yorker, December 31, 2019. 4 Paul Mason, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future, FSG, 2015, p. 29. 5 See Gay Seidman, Manufacturing Militance: Workers’ Movements in Brazil and South Africa, 1970–1985
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
by Adam Tooze · 31 Jul 2018 · 1,066pp · 273,703 words
Moore weighed in with an incendiary e-mail to his mass following, entitled “The Rich Are Staging a Coup This Morning.” As the British journalist Paul Mason remarked, Paulson’s cack-handed proposal triggered an “accidental synergy between the right-wing populist opposition to the bailout and the left-liberal stance.”53
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more at P. Mason, “Greece Crisis: A Failure of Economics in the Face of Politics,” Channel4, July 3, 2015, https://www.channel4.com/news/by/paul-mason/blogs/greece-crisis-failure-economics-face-politics. 70. P. Taylor, “Exclusive: Europeans Tried to Block IMF Debt Report on Greece: Sources,” Reuters, July 3, 2015
Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend
by Barbara Oakley Phd · 20 Oct 2008
provided strong evidence that borderline personality disorder is indeed real—and devastating to both the disorder's sufferers and the people around them.a.14 Paul Mason and Randi Kreger, authors of the classic book about borderline personality disorder Stop Walking on Eggshells, write: “It's no secret that [nonborderlines] often feel
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, 29–30 narcissism, 309 temper, 30 Stewart, Jon: “obsolete power corrupts obsoletely,” 323 Stewart, Martha, dark business genius, 293–94, 315 Stop Walking on Eggshells (Paul Mason and Randi Kreger), 139 Stout, Martha (The Sociopath Next Door), 322, 398n12 Strategy of Conflict, The (Thomas Schelling), 260 stress. See also child abuse borderline
The Innovation Illusion: How So Little Is Created by So Many Working So Hard
by Fredrik Erixon and Bjorn Weigel · 3 Oct 2016 · 504pp · 126,835 words
of socialism as a consequence of unobstructed source technology and community-generated content.20 Capitalism is a highly adaptive creature, argues the contrarian economic reporter Paul Mason, but it is not going to survive the current revolution in information technology.21 Information, he argues, will destroy the price mechanism and new forms
The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction
by Jamie Woodcock and Mark Graham · 17 Jan 2020 · 207pp · 59,298 words
less security’ (Heyes, 2011: 643). Since 2008 there have been many claims about an economic upturn or the beginnings of hopeful economic growth. However, as Paul Mason (2016) has argued, the years following have been a jobless recovery. Rather than the creation of new jobs and the sharing of the benefits of
Reset: How to Restart Your Life and Get F.U. Money: The Unconventional Early Retirement Plan for Midlife Careerists Who Want to Be Happy
by David Sawyer · 17 Aug 2018 · 572pp · 94,002 words
revolutionary mindfulness...” toreset.me/189. [190] northern soul: To find out what northern soul is about, which I suggest you do, watch journalist and broadcaster Paul Mason’s 2014 BBC Four documentary Living for the Weekend: toreset.me/190a or read his article: “My life as a northern soul boy
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| Paul Mason | Music | The Guardian.” 11 Oct. 2014, toreset.me/190b. [191] New Order’s “Love Vigilantes”: “New Order Love Vigilantes Video – YouTube.” 30 Nov. 2012, toreset.
The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World
by Linsey McGoey · 14 Sep 2019
is widely seen as having an economically liberal government rather than a ‘protectionist’ one during that period. Even someone as astute as the British journalist Paul Mason has made this mistake, claiming that in the 19th century ‘the state stood back to let market forces rip and allow businesses to stand or
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); Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire (London: Two Roads, 2018); Richard Seymour, The Liberal Defence of Murder (London: Verso, 2008). 32 Paul Mason, 2018. ‘Ink it onto your knuckles: Carillion is how neoliberalism lives and breathes’ (Novaro Media, January 1). http://novaramedia.com/2018/01/15/ink-it
Who Will Defend Europe?: An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent
by Keir Giles · 24 Oct 2024 · 296pp · 81,440 words
March 2024, https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/127/public-accounts-committee/news/200289/uk-defence-no-credible-government-plan-to-deliver-desired-military-capabilities/ 21.Paul Mason, “Lessons from the 1930s: Rearm according to the threat, not the fiscal rules”, Council on Geostrategy, 8 May 2024, https://www.geostrategy.org.uk/britains
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branch reform”, The Telegraph, 11 July 2024, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/11/britains-defence-capability-is-in-a-worse-state/ 105.Paul Mason, “UK defence spending debate gets real”, Medium, 25 March 2024, https://paulmasonnews.medium.com/uk-defence-spending-debate-gets-real-581e61403215 5.NATO AND EUROPE
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
, MIT, author of Programming the Universe Joseph Lykken, physicist, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Pattie Maes, MIT Media Laboratory Robert Mann, author of Forensic Detective Michael Paul Mason, author of Head Cases W. Patrick McCray, author of Keep Watching the Skies! Glenn McGee, author of The Perfect Baby James McLurkin, former scientist at
The Cost of Inequality: Why Economic Equality Is Essential for Recovery
by Stewart Lansley · 19 Jan 2012 · 223pp · 10,010 words
grew by a staggering 2500 per cent, from around $10 billion in 2002 to $250 billion by March 2008’, wrote the BBC’s Newsnight editor, Paul Mason, in his book Meltdown. After the crash, commodity prices collapsed, by much more than could be accounted for by output falls, largely because investors withdrew
What Went Wrong: How the 1% Hijacked the American Middle Class . . . And What Other Countries Got Right
by George R. Tyler · 15 Jul 2013 · 772pp · 203,182 words
young, educated people is unique—at least in the post-1945 period: a cohort who can expect to grow up poorer than their parents.”3 PAUL MASON, The Guardian, July 2012 Americans have long been proud of their economy. And why shouldn’t we be? From the time we were children, we
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Spiegel, August 19, 2010, http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/on-the-way-down-the-erosion-of-america-s-middle-class-a-712496.html. 3 Paul Mason, “The graduate without a future,” The Guardian, July 1, 2012. 4 Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, “Income Inequality in the United States, 1913 to 1998
Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe
by Antony Loewenstein · 1 Sep 2015 · 464pp · 121,983 words
with the right-wing and racist party ANEL (Independent Greeks)—a move criticized by many leftists. The economics editor of Britain’s Channel 4 News, Paul Mason, argued after the Syriza win: “What lies beneath the rise of the radical left is the emergence of positive new values—among a layer of
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the report is that, sooner or later, an alternative programme to ‘more of the same’ will emerge,” wrote Britain’s Channel 4 News economics editor Paul Mason. “Because populations armed with smartphones, and an increased sense of their human rights, will not accept a future of high inequality and low growth.”71
Adam Smith: Father of Economics
by Jesse Norman · 30 Jun 2018
in Politics and Political Economy, Princeton University Press 2009, Ch. 13 Critique of ‘neoliberalism’: see e.g. Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine, Penguin 2008, and Paul Mason, Postcapitalism: A Guide to our Future, Penguin 2015. For a vigorous defence and reclamation of the word ‘neoliberal’, see Madsen Pirie, The Neoliberal Mind: The
Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk
by Satyajit Das · 14 Oct 2011 · 741pp · 179,454 words
of Yes, Faber & Faber, London: 45. Chapter 18—Shell Games 1. Brad DeLong “Republic of the central banker” (27 October 2008) The American Prospect. 2. Paul Mason (2009) Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed, Verso, London: 61. 3. Philip Augar (2009) Chasing Alpha: How Reckless Growth and Unchecked Ambition Ruined
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(2004) The (Mis)behavior of Markets, Basic Books, New York. Harry Markapolos (2010) No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller, John Wiley, New Jersey. Paul Mason (2009) Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed, Verso, London. Mark McCormack (1984) What They Don’t Teach You At Harvard Business School: Notes
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams · 1 Oct 2015 · 357pp · 95,986 words
with Noam Chomsky’, 2013, at libcom.org. 9.Adam Gabbatt, ‘Occupy Wall Street Activists Buy $15m of Americans’ Personal Debt’, Guardian, 12 November 2013. 10.Paul Mason, Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global (London: Vintage, 2008). 11.Stephen Stich, From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science: The Case
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5 (2012); David Graeber, ‘Afterword’, in Khatib et al., We Are Many, p. 425. 57.Spence and McGuire, ‘Occupy and the 99%’, p. 61. 58.Paul Mason, Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions (London: Verso, 2012), p. 63. 59.In light of the emergence of Occupy, McKenzie Wark
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Armen Avanessian, eds, #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader (Falmouth: Urbanomic, 2014), pp. 528–31. 52.Wendy Brown, ‘Resisting Left Melancholy’, Boundary 2 26: 3 (1999). 53.Paul Mason, Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions (London: Verso, 2012), pp. 66–73. 54.Mark Fisher, ‘Going Overground’, K-Punk, 5 January
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an essential meditation on this, see Benedict Singleton, ‘Maximum Jailbreak’, in Robin Mackay and Armen Avanessian, eds, #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader (Falmouth: Urbanomic, 2014). 7.Paul Mason, ‘What Would Keynes Do?’, New Statesman, 12 June 2014. 8.Singleton, ‘Maximum Jailbreak’; Nikolai Federovich Federov, ‘The Philosophy of the Common Task’, in What Was
150 Movies You Should Die Before You See
by Steve Miller · 5 Oct 2010 · 285pp · 61,929 words
1.7 million people fled their homes or took up arms during the panic. KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE Chiodo Brothers Productions/MGM, 1988 PRODUCERS Paul Mason and Helen Sarlui-Tucker (executive producers), Charles Chiodo, Edward Chiodo, and Stephen Chiodo (producers) WRITERS Charles Chiodo, Edward Chiodo, and Stephen Chiodo DIRECTOR Stephen Chiodo
Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech
by Jamie Susskind · 3 Sep 2018 · 533pp
of the Professions, 157; Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler, Abundance:The Future is Better Than You Think (New York: Free Press, 2014), 55. 43. Paul Mason, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future (London: Allen Lane, 2015), 121. 44. Luciano Floridi, The 4th Revolution: How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality (Oxford
Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI
by John Cassidy · 12 May 2025 · 774pp · 238,244 words
an adviser to Gosplan, presented a longer and more detailed critique. In his engaging 2015 book, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future, the English writer Paul Mason noted that the verbatim record of the February 6 meeting “contains none of the fear and irrationality that Stalin’s purges would soon inject into
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. 33. Kondratieff, “Long Waves in Economic Life,” 112. 34. Kondratieff, “Long Waves in Economic Life,” 112. 35. Kondratieff, “Long Waves in Economic Life,” 112. 36. Paul Mason, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015), 40. 37. Garvy, “Kondratieff’s Theory of Long Cycles,” 210. 38. Mason
Uncomfortably Off: Why the Top 10% of Earners Should Care About Inequality
by Marcos González Hernando and Gerry Mitchell · 23 May 2023
just very poorly distributed. Until these inequities are addressed, the country will continue to experience deficient demand, little productive investment and sluggish growth.54 As Paul Mason put it, the ‘six dials on the dashboard of the UK economy: inflation, investment, trade, debt, sterling and the current account […] are all flashing red
The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It
by Owen Jones · 3 Sep 2014 · 388pp · 125,472 words
a threat to the City of London, that does not mean there were not other sound reasons to oppose it. As the then BBC journalist Paul Mason put it at the time, ‘By enshrining in national and international law the need for balanced budgets and near-zero structural deficits, the Eurozone has
Give People Money
by Annie Lowrey · 10 Jul 2018 · 242pp · 73,728 words
was tackling hard work for low pay, starting a business, caring for a child, or doing something artistic. Of late, thinkers like the British journalist Paul Mason, the digital-economy expert Nick Srnicek, and the futurist Alex Williams have pushed for economies to build that bridge, using automation to eradicate as much
As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age
by Matthew Cobb · 15 Nov 2022 · 772pp · 150,109 words
genetic dreams and nightmares, Cobb skillfully sifts the truth from the hype in this thrilling and alarming account of our most dangerous and exciting technology.” —Paul Mason, author of How to Stop Fascism “Cobb’s riveting analysis warns that in a world beset by poverty, inequality, and climate catastrophe, chasing apparently dazzling
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
by Quinn Slobodian · 4 Apr 2023 · 360pp · 107,124 words
the Present (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 501. 119. Jacob Rowbottom, “Protest: No Banners on My Land!,” New Statesman, November 1, 2004, Gale OneFile. 120. Paul Mason, “New Dawn for the Workers,” New Statesman, April 16, 2007, Gale OneFile. 121. Anna Minton, “The Paradox of Safety and Fear: Security in Public Space
How Will Capitalism End?
by Wolfgang Streeck · 8 Nov 2016 · 424pp · 115,035 words
, for example, Binyamin Appelbaum, ‘Policy Makers Skeptical on Preventing Financial Crisis’, New York Times, 4 October 2015, nytimes.com, last accessed 21 January 2016; and Paul Mason, ‘Apocalypse Now: Has the Next Giant Financial Crash Already Begun?’, Guardian, 1 November 2015, theguardian.com, last accessed 21 January 2016. Consider also the report
Brexit, No Exit: Why in the End Britain Won't Leave Europe
by Denis MacShane · 14 Jul 2017 · 308pp · 99,298 words
occasional pro-EU piece in the Financial Times, while the Guardian handed over its comment pages to fluent writers like Sir Simon Jenkins, Owen Jones, Paul Mason or Giles Fraser to mock and denigrate Europe. Almost the entire economist establishment took against the euro and the Guardian’s economics editor, Larry Elliott
Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats
by Maya Goodfellow · 5 Nov 2019 · 273pp · 83,802 words
Us All, London: Runnymede Trust, 1997; Arun Kundnani, The Muslims Are Coming!: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror, London: Verso, 2015; Kerry Moore, Paul Mason and Justin Lewis, Images of Islam in the UK: The Representation of British Muslims in the National Print News Media 2000–2008, Cardiff: Cardiff School
12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next
by Jeanette Winterson · 15 Mar 2021 · 256pp · 73,068 words
Shelley, 1832: ‘Ye are many—they are few’ ‘A Short History of Enclosure in Britain’ (essay), Simon Fairlie, 2009 PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future, Paul Mason, 2015 Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty, 2013 Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon have cornered culture and undermined
Likewar: The Weaponization of Social Media
by Peter Warren Singer and Emerson T. Brooking · 15 Mar 2018
/world/middle-east/israel-gaza-conflict-social-media-becomes-the-latest-battleground-in-middle-east-aggression-but-9605952.html. 197 more than 4 million times: Paul Mason, “Why Israel Is Losing the Social Media War over Gaza,” Huffington Post, July 23, 2014, http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
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/paul-mason/israel-gaza-social-media_b_5612510.html?utm_hp_ref=uk. 197 many Israelis were furious: Mirren Gidda, “Poll: 92% of Israeli Jews Say Operation
World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
by Franklin Foer · 31 Aug 2017 · 281pp · 71,242 words
of consumption for news”: Astra Taylor, The People’s Platform (Metropolitan Books, 2014), 204. Between 2006 and 2012, the world’s information output grew tenfold: Paul Mason, Postcapitalism (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015), 125. “What information consumes is rather obvious”: Herbert A. Simon, “Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World,” in Martin
Radicals Chasing Utopia: Inside the Rogue Movements Trying to Change the World
by Jamie Bartlett · 12 Jun 2017 · 390pp · 109,870 words
-off-than-those-in-work.html. * For further reading on the anti-capitalist movements and their prospects, see, for example, Sarah Jaffe’s Necessary Trouble, Paul Mason’s Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere and Chris Hedges’ Wages of Rebellion. Manuel Castells and Clay Shirkey are two examples of the optimistic social
Cities Are Good for You: The Genius of the Metropolis
by Leo Hollis · 31 Mar 2013 · 385pp · 118,314 words
people out onto Tahrir Square. This relationship between media and stimulus to action is the source of great debate. For some commentators, such as economist Paul Mason, author of Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere, technology has the potential to be one of the key tools for revolution; on the other hand
Humankind: A Hopeful History
by Rutger Bregman · 1 Jun 2020 · 578pp · 131,346 words
in 1944. 39Tine de Moor, ‘Homo Cooperans. Institutions for collective action and the compassionate society’, Utrecht University Inaugural Lecture (30 August 2013). 40See, for example, Paul Mason, Postcapitalism. A Guide to Our Future (London, 2015). 41See, for example, Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. The Fight for a Human Future at
Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem
by Tim Shipman · 30 Nov 2017 · 721pp · 238,678 words
from Milne and Andrew Fisher. He had also had media training from Marc Lopatin, a communications adviser who also worked as a dispute mediator, and Paul Mason, the former economics editor of Newsnight whose book PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future had made him a poster-boy for the Corbynistas. The only
Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire
by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian · 1 Nov 2012
Research Paper 2010/36 (November 2010). See also Eva Cheng, “China: Wage Share Plunges,” Green Left Weekly, 19 October 2007. 20. For an analysis, see Paul Mason, Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global, updated ed. (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2010). 21. United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report
The Global Minotaur
by Yanis Varoufakis and Paul Mason · 4 Jul 2015 · 394pp · 85,734 words
Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code
by Matthew Cobb · 6 Jul 2015 · 608pp · 150,324 words
, author of The Compatibility Gene ‘Cobb reveals the astonishing drama of the moment genetics and information technology collided, shaping the modern world and modern thought.’ Paul Mason, Channel 4 News ALSO BY MATTHEW COBB The Egg and Sperm Race: The Seventeenth Century Scientists who Unravelled the Secrets of Sex, Life and Growth