Postcapitalism
by Paul Mason · first published 2016
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"Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone profound changes--economic cycles that veer from boom to bust--from which it has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Surveying this turbulent history, Paul Mason's Postcapitalism argues that we are on the brink of a change so big and so profound that this time capitalism itself, the immensely complex system within which entire societies function, will mutate into something wholly new. At the heart of this change is information technology, a revolution that is driven by capitalism but, with its tendency to push the value of m
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If you're reading the above comment and nodding your head or even feel the argument is wanting, I highly encourage you to read Postcapitalism by Paul Mason. There's even a chapter entitled "Was Marx Right?" Well worth the read. https://www.amazon.com/Postcapitalism-Guide-Future-Paul-Maso...
on “What.CD is shutting down” ↗…will get to a PostCapitalist future. The decisions we make in the next 7 years will likely determine whether the probable future is dystopian like Shadowrun, or utopian like Paul Mason (see his book "Postcapitalism: a Guide to Our Future"). Personally, I prefer Mason's, with his goals of: - Rapidly reduce carbon emissions to stay below 2 °C warming by 2050 (edit: We've lost this battle, see the current 6-sigma…
on “Google vs. the Open Web” ↗…Why can’t we change our minds even when we are wrong? Clay Water Brick - Jessica Jackley: Want to learn what it takes to change the world? Behind the Cloud - Marc Benioff: Marc Benioff is a genius. Postcapitalism - Paul Mason: Does capitalism work? This seems even more pertinent following recent political upheaval. First Brexit now Trump, this gravitas of what this book conveyed wasn’t really certain until those…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2016?” ↗I am about two-thirds of the way through Paul Mason's 'Postcapitalism - A Guide To Our Future'. It's a book recommendation I got from some HN comments on a UBI story a while back. The happy / neutral / depressing theories (more hypotheses) don't cover all the possibilities,…
on “Why Is Productivity So Weak? Three Theories” ↗I can't even dismiss it as typical Guardian progressive ranting FYI because it is not clear from the article, but this is actually a marketing piece for a book: Postcapitalism is published by Allen Lane on 30 July. Paul Mason is the award-winning economics editor of Channel 4 News. His books include Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: the New Global Revolutions ('Compact, urgent,…
on “The end of capitalism has begun” ↗…mechanisms driving these, and what the future implications are. The questions are deep, vast, perplexing, and far from settled. Carlotta Perez's book is mentioned here, I second that. Paul Mason's Postcapitalism argues based on Kondratiev cycles, and has a lot of strong anecdotal data though I question Mason's economic instincts. Robert Gordon's The Rise and Fall of American Growth is an excellent look backward…
on “End of Cycle?” ↗I've never heard this "postcapitalism" term before so I dug around a bit. It seems that the author, Paul Mason, has recently published a book: Postcapitalism: A Guide to our Future. Here's a blurb from a review on Goodreads [1]: Probably…
on “BrewDog’s open-source revolution is at the vanguard of postcapitalism” ↗…which markets set prices. For goods with high fixed and low marginal costs, market prices are simply insufficient to reward producers (or creators). This is the subject of recent books by Paul Mason (Postcapitalism) and Jeremy Rifkin (The Zero Marginal Cost Society). Gresham's Law is another challenge, multiple ways. The popular form is "Bad X drives out good", though the general mechanism is more nuanced: Greshams…
on “Better than Free (2008)” ↗