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<p>Now available for ordering and/or free download…<br>
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<b>Protocols for Postcapitalist Economic Expression. Agency,
Finance and Sociality in the New Economic Space </b><br>
Dick Bryan, Jorge Lopez and Akseli Virtanen<br>
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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.<br>
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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.
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<p>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.<br>
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PDF available freely online:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1195">https://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=1195</a><br>
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Ordering Information: Available direct from Minor Compositions
site.<br>
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Release to the book trade 1 November 2023<br>
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Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations
drawing from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the
revolutions of everyday life.<br>
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192 pages, 6 x 9, paperback<br>
UK: £18 / US: $23<br>
IBSN 978-1-57027-414-5<br>
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