Aaron Benanav discusses the second part of his ‘Beyond Capitalism’ essay series in the New Left Review. In this part he lays out the institutional design of his proposal of a multi-criterial economy.
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Aaron at Cornell University:
https://cals.cornell.edu/people/aaron-benanav
Aaron’s personal website:
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Benanav, A. (2025). Beyond Capitalism—1. New Left Review, Issue 153, 65–128.
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii153/articles/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-1
Benanav, A. (2025). Beyond Capitalism—2. New Left Review, Issue 154, 97–143.
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii154/articles/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-2
Benanv, A. (2020). Automation and the Future of Work. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2682-automation-and-the-future-of-work
on economic stagnation, see especially chapter 3, “In the Shadow of Stagnation”.
on Marx’s concept of the Value-Form:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/appendix.htm
Moore, J.W. & Patel, R. (2020). A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things. A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/817-a-history-of-the-world-in-seven-cheap-things
on the abstract domination of capitalism:
Postone, M. (1993). Time, Labor and Social Domination. A Reinterpretation of Marx’s Critical Theory. Cambridge University Press.
https://files.libcom.org/files/Moishe%20Postone%20-%20Time,%20Labor,%20and%20Social%20Domination.pdf
Mau, S. (2023). Mute Compulsion. A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital. Verso.
https://www.versobooks.com/products/2759-mute-compulsion
Leipold, B. (2024). Citizen Marx. Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought. Princeton University Press.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691205236/citizen-marx
on GDP (Gross Domestic Product):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product
on the Five-Year Plans in the Soviet Union:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-year_plans_of_the_Soviet_Union
Katsenelinboigen, A. (1977). Coloured Markets in the Soviet Union. Soviet Studies. Vol. 29, No.1. 62-85.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/150728
Uvalić, M. (2018). The Rise and Fall of Market Socialism in Yugoslavia.
on Friedrich Hayek:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek
Hayek, F. A. (1945). The Use of Knowledge in Society. The American Economic Review, 35(4), 519–530.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1809376
on the Pareto Optimum:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency
on Rational Choice Theory:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_choice_model
on Behavioral Economics:
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