The Channel 4 economics editor behind new book Postcapitalism is joining us answer your questions in a live webchat on Monday 27 July at 1pm BST – post them in the comments below 1.26pm BST Paul Mason has struck a chord. An extract from his book Postcapitalism, published in the Guardian, has been viewed over 2 million times in less than a week, and shared over 317,000 times on social media. The book’s thesis – that the old, wildly unequal methods of doing business could be coming to a close – is bracingly utopian, and looks set to be one of the most-discussed of the year. As economics editor for Channel 4 news, and in his former work with the BBC, Mason has reported from the rocky terrain of global finance: the fall of Lehman, the Libor scandal, the Occupy movement and the standoff between Greece and the rest of the EU. To viewers’ delight, his professional distance would sometimes dissolve into on-screen exasperation at the failures of the world’s financial elite. He also wrote Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere, an exploration into the Arab Spring and other protest movements. Continue reading...
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