Recommended Books on Postcapitalism


Editor’s Note: Paul Mason’s book is critical to society’s awareness of what is happening.


Additional Books

The Coming Boom: Economic, Political and Social, Herman Kahn, 1982

The Jobless Future: Second Edition, Stanley Aronowitz and William DiFazio, 1994

The Jobless Economy?: Computer Technology in the World of Work, Michael Dunkerley, 1996

The Post-Corporate World, David Korten, 1999

Parecon: Life After Capitalism, Michael Albert, 2003

Just Around The Corner: The Paradox Of The Jobless Recovery, Stanley Aronowitz, 2005

Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World (3rd Edition), Stuart Hart, 2010

Beyond the Profits System: Possibilities for a Post-Capitalist Era, Harry Shutt

Climate Capitalism: Global Warming and the Transformation of the Global Economy, Peter Newell and Matthew Paterson, 2010

Whither the World: The Political Economy of the Future: Volume 1, Grzegorz Kolodko

Whither the World: The Political Economy of the Future: Volume 2, Kregorz Kolodko

Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism, Slavoj Zizek, 2014

Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism, Benjamin Noys, 2014

Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader, Robin Mackay, Armen Avanessian (editors), 2014

Economics After Capitalism: A Guide to the Ruins and a Road to the Future, Derek Wall, 2015

The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts, Richard and Daniel Susskind, 2015

Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Jerry Kaplan, 2015

The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism, Jeremy Rifkin, 2015

Four Futures: Life After Capitalism (Jacobin), Peter Frase, 2016

The Future We Want: Radical Ideas for the New Century, Sarah Leonard, 2016

After Capitalism: Horizons of Finance, Culture, and Citizenship (New Directions in International Studies), Kennan Ferguson and Patrice Petro, 2016

The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, Kevin Kelly, 2016

Robonomics: Prepare Today for the Jobless Economy of Tomorrow, John Crews, 2016

Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future, Martin Ford, 2016

People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy, John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney, 2016

The Vanishing American Corporation: Navigating the Hazards of a New Economy, Gerald Davis, 2016

Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business, Rana Foroohar, 2016

Streaming, Sharing, Stealing: Big Data and the Future of Entertainment (MIT Press), Michael D. Smith adn Rahul Telang, 2016

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Klaus Schwab, 2016

Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy–And How to Make Them Work for You, W. Van Alstyne and Sangeet Paul Choudary, 2016

The Network Imperative: How to Survive and Grow in the Age of Digital Business Models, Barry Libert, Megan Beck and Jerry Wind, 2016

The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future, Steve Case, 2016

The Industries of the Future, Alec Ross, 2016

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Nick Bostrom, 2016