Paul Mason is the former economics editor of BBC Newsnight and Channel 4 News. He is a London-based freelance journalist and broadcast commentator, and writes regular columns in The New European, Frankfurter Rundschau and Social Europe. He is the author of seven books including Postcapitalism, How to Stop Fascism and Rare Earth: A Novel. His awards include RTS Specialist Broadcaster of the Year (2011) and the Erich Fromm Prize (2020).
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What caused the financial mess we're in? And how do we get out of it? Two of the great economic thinkers of the 20th century had sharply contrasting views. John Maynard Keynes believed that government spending could create employment and longer term grow... SEE MORE