[Minorcompositions] Protocols for Postcapitalist Economic Expression

[Minor Compositions]

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*Protocols for Postcapitalist Economic Expression. Agency, Finance and 
Sociality in the New Economic Space *
Dick Bryan, Jorge Lopez and Akseli Virtanen


What would an Internet native economic system look like? Could economic 
power be systematically shared amongst individuals and their 
self-defined groups, with no central economic authority? And could that 
system secure collectively defined social and environmental benefits and 
create liquidity for their production? 

In Protocols for Postcapitalist 
Economic Expression Bryan, Lopez and Virtanen build the conditions for 
such a system. Where economic processes are not dictated by profit, what 
counts as value-creation, and is rewarded by dividends, can be 
collectively determined by the network. Care, the arts, the environment 
will not be after-thoughts, to be subsidized by states or the rich: they 
can be at the core of the economy’s value proposition.


This book develops protocols that can generate all these processes. A 
blend of theoretical engagement with big economic ideas (Marx, Keynes, 
Hayek and others), media and information analytics and careful protocol 
design of token-related processes of distributed exchange, matching, 
netting and clearing, Protocols systematically builds an alternative to 
neoliberal capitalism, centrally-planned socialism and reformist social 
democracy. In an expressive, creative, risk-sharing, data-rich network 
of investing, producing, exchanging and lending, standard economic 
propositions get stood on their heads... and new political possibilities 
emerge.



Bios: The book is a product of research undertaken by the Economic Space 
Agency (ECSA). Dick Bryan is the Chief Economist at ECSA and an Emeritus 
Professor of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. Jorge Lopez 
is a distributed systems architect and the Lead Architect at ECSA. 
Akseli Virtanen, D.Sc.(Econ.), is the Co-founder of ECSA, and an 
Associate Professor at Aalto University.

PDF available freely online: https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1195

Ordering Information: Available direct from Minor Compositions site.

Release to the book trade 1 November 2023

Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations drawing 
from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of 
everyday life.

192 pages, 6 x 9, paperback
UK: £18 / US: $23
IBSN 978-1-57027-414-5
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