Outline of a future economy
Paul Mason
born in 1960, is an award-winning English television journalist. He worked for the BBC for many years and is now head of the business desk at Channel 4 News. Mason also teaches as a visiting professor at the University of Wolverhampton.
We know three things: Capitalism has replaced feudalism; since then it has gone through cyclical lows, and since 2008 at the latest, the engine has been sputtering. What we don't know: Are we experiencing one of the usual crises or the dawn of a post-capitalist order?
Paul Mason looks at the data, analyses crisis theories - and says: We are at the beginning of something new. He takes up ideas that were developed in a London library over 150 years ago and according to which knowledge and intelligent machines could one day »blow up« capitalism. In the age of steel and screws, hierarchies and scarcity, this vision was so radical that Marx quickly shelved it. In the world of networks, cooperation and digital abundance, it is more relevant than ever.
Moderation
Robert Misik, Journalist and Author
In collaboration with Suhrkamp
in English language