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Last week, I had a conversation in the street with a self-employed landscape gardener. He asked me where I was from and I said the Labour party. He said that ‘that Tony Blair was in the Labour party and earning big bucks’. He said he did not think much of Gordon Brown...

In Postcapitalism, Paul Mason looks at the cycles of change experienced by capitalist economies. He argues that we are undergoing a fundamental change, driven by information technology.  This change will see the limits of capitalism reached and something else emerge,...

The spending side of Corbynomics – set out in his manifesto The Economy in 2020 – with its promises of renationalisation of the railways, the energy companies and even the banking and financial services sectors, has received deserved scrutiny. Less so the question...

Economics is the dominant religion in our society. The logic of the market is not a description of human but a prescription for the best life. ‘Economic man’ – independent, driven by self-interest – is proposed as a reflection of who we are, but perhaps instead it is...