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