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. In his groundbreaking new book, PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future, Paul Mason explores how past societies have collapsed or changed, and provides a powerful critique of why our present system of financial capitalism has failed us. Most of all, he shows how, from the ashes of the crisis, we have the chance to create a more socially just and sustainable economy. While the dangers ahead are profound, he argues, there is cause for hope. This is the first time in human history in which, equipped with an understanding of what is happening around us, we can predict and shape, rather than simply react to, seismic change. 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, present-tense, declarative and addictive' - Andy Beckett, Guardian); Live Working Die Fighting ('Indispensable, brilliant' - Ken Loach; longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award); and Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed ('Lucid and sharply polemical' - Oliver Kamm, The Times).