Book description
'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…
Why read it?
1 author picked Postcapitalism as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is a book on one of the 2 or 3 most important issues affecting the world: how we organize our society.
It’s a book looking at what is wrong with the present capitalist economic system and then suggesting what a better POST-capitalist economy and society might be. A massively important issue that people sometimes dismiss by saying ‘I’m not interested in politics’.
The book shows that attitude to be a big mistake because of all the ways that political and economic policies affect our lives. So, we better be involved and play our part in making things better. Also,…
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