Protocols For Postcapitalist Economic Expression : Agency, Finance and Sociality in the New Economic Space

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 econo