Postcapitalism is a guide to our time of seismic economic change and how we might create a more equal society, and it was written by award-winning Channel 4 presenter Paul Mason. According to Irvine Welsh, it is "the most essential book about our economy and society to be published in my lifetime." Capitalism has experienced constant transformation over the past two centuries, with economic cycles that lurch from boom to bust, and has always come out stronger and transformed. Looking back over this turbulent history, Paul Mason wonders if we are currently experiencing a change so significant and profound that capitalism, the incredibly intricate system that underlies the functioning of entire societies, has finally reached its breaking point and is evolving into something completely new.Information technology is at the centre of this change. Mason argues that this revolution has the power to completely alter how we think about work, production, and value. It also has the potential to destroy an economy based on markets and private ownership. In fact, he claims that this is already happening. Mason demonstrates how we have the possibility to build a more socially just and environmentally sustainable global economy from the ashes of the current financial disaster in this ground-breaking, Sunday Times top 10 book.