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America's new poor: the end of the middle-class dream | Paul Mason
The ideology that drove millions of people into expensive lifestyles on low pay and easy credit is bust. But who will tell them?The men clustered in the shade of trees, in the 90F heat of a car park in...
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23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
Paul Mason isn't entirely convinced by arguments for caring capitalismIf a Martian came to earth, wrote nobel laureate Herbert Simon, he would think we lived not in a market economy but an...
View ArticleThe Business podcast: Ireland in crisis
A week of protestations from Dublin ended with prime minister Brian Cowen's announcement that Ireland was seeking rescue funds from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. In this...
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From Paris to Cairo, these protests are expanding the power of the individual...
Twitter is only part of the story of the empowering of a generation failed by the evaporated promises of the labour market'We will fight, we will kiss …" says the poster, over a picture of a single...
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The European dream is in danger: prepare for another rude awakening | Paul Mason
With the single currency being tested to breaking point, the EU's implicit social solidarity is in chronically short supplyIn the summer of 1914 the Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig was on holiday in...
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Today Greece. Tomorrow Europe's Gucci-clad elite | Paul Mason
Protesters in Greece are on to something: the country's solvency crisis poses survival issues for the entire eurozone'I shouldn't really say this" – my interlocutor was a key member of the Greek...
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Books for giving: economics
Responses to the global financial meltdownTwo questions predominate in this year's slew of books on economics. The first is the most obvious: how do we get out of this mess? It's a question that has...
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Global unrest: how the revolution went viral
The past 18 months have seen extraordinary outpourings of discontent. But what links them? In this extract from his new book, Paul Mason examines how technology has been at the heart of the global...
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Global protests: where does the revolution go from here?
2011's anti-capitalist protests and Arab spring made everything seem possible. But will 2012 bring real change? The key is turning rebellion into coherent political visionThe first freely elected...
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Paul Mason's top 10 books about China
From 17th-century pornography to meticulous social history, Newsnight's economics editor writes about the books that inspired his first novel, Rare EarthPaul Mason is the BBC's Newsnight economics...
View ArticleGuardian Books podcast: John Lanchester and Paul Mason on fact and fiction
Where does journalism end and fiction begin, and how will the novel fare in our new technological multiverse? As one of the most eagerly anticipated novels of the new publishing year hits the...
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The graduates of 2012 will survive only in the cracks of our economy | Paul...
Uniquely, this cohort can expect to grow up poorer than their parents – the human expression of a broken economic modelThe phrase "graduate without a future" came into my head while I was lecturing...
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Timon of Athens: the power of money
Set in modern Mayfair and Canary Wharf, with the ruling class in disarray, the National Theatre's new production finds some very up-to-date echoesAs he damns the Athenian elite, Timon exhorts: "Bound...
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Crude World and The Squeeze | Book review
Two meticulous assessments of the decline of giant oil companiesWe live in an age of teetering empires, never quite ready to fall, eras not quite ready to end, their final crisis the subject of an...
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Mo Yan's storytelling is as surreal as China
The Nobel prize winner's mix of realism and the uncanny is closely attuned to how life works in his tumultuous nation"On the third day after Birdman Han was taken away, Third Sister got up off the...
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From Arab Spring to global revolution | Paul Mason
In an excerpt from his book Why It's Still Kicking Off Everywhere, Paul Mason argues that a global protest movement, based on social networks, is here to stayTwo years on from the fall of Hosni...
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What's Wagner's secret? Love, actually
Every time Paul Mason hears Wagner he wonders how it is that the music of an antisemite can tear his heart to pieces. The answer is in the passion …There is a moment towards the end of Die...
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The European dream is in danger: prepare for another rude awakening | Paul Mason
With the single currency being tested to breaking point, the EU's implicit social solidarity is in chronically short supplyIn the summer of 1914 the Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig was on holiday in...
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Today Greece. Tomorrow Europe's Gucci-clad elite | Paul Mason
Protesters in Greece are on to something: the country's solvency crisis poses survival issues for the entire eurozone'I shouldn't really say this" – my interlocutor was a key member of the Greek...
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Books for giving: economics
Responses to the global financial meltdownTwo questions predominate in this year's slew of books on economics. The first is the most obvious: how do we get out of this mess? It's a question that has...
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