Aaron Benanav | Beyond Capitalism I

Aaron Benanav discusses the first part of his ‘Beyond Capitalism’ essay series in the New Left Review. In this part he lays the groundwork for his proposal of a multi-criterial economy.

SASE - Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics:

https://sase.org/

SASE Network I: Alternatives to Capitalism (including CfP):

https://sase.org/networks/i-alternatives-to-capitalism/

Shownotes

Aaron at Cornell University:

https://cals.cornell.edu/people/aaron-benanav

Aaron’s personal website:

https://www.aaronbenanav.com/

Access to Aaron's paywalled publications:

https://www.aaronbenanav.com/papers

Mailing List to join the Movement for Multi-Dimensional Economics:

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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.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331223694_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:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics

on Otto Neurath:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Neurath

on Neurath’s technocratic tendencies:

https://jacobin.com/2023/02/technocratic-socialism-otto-neurath-utopianism-capitalism

on Joseph Raz:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Raz

on Utilitarianism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism

on the Capability Approach by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_approach

on the Human Development Index (HDI):

https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/human-development-index#/indicies/HDI

on the Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs):

https://sdgs.un.org/goals

on Multi-Objective Optimization:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-objective_optimization

Saros, D. E. (2014). Information Technology and Socialist Construction. The End of Capital and the Transition to Socialism. Routledge.

https://www.routledge.com/Information-Technology-and-Socialist-Construction-The-End-of-Capital-and-the-Transition-to-Socialism/Saros/p/book/9780415742924

on Neoclassical Economics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoclassical_economics

on Citizen Assemblies and Sortition:

https://www.sortitionfoundation.org/

on John Stuart Mill:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill

Mill, J. S. (2011). On Liberty. Cambridge University Press.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/on-liberty/62EC27F1E66E2BCBA29DDCD5294B3DE0

McCabe, H. (2021). John Stuart Mill, Socialist. McGill-Queen’s University Press.

https://www.mqup.ca/john-stuart-mill--socialist-products-9780228005742.php

on Degrowth:

https://degrowth.info/

on Nick Land and Right Accelerationism:

https://youtu.be/lrOVKHg_PJQ?si=Q4oFbaM1p4fhcWP0

on Left Accelerationism:

https://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/14/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/

Devine, P. (2002). Participatory Planning through Negotiated Coordination. Science & Society, Vol. 66, No. 1, 72-85.

https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/10.1521/siso.66.1.72.21001?journalCode=siso

on Oskar R. Lange:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_R._Lange

on Lange’s neoclassical approach to Socialism:

https://jacobin.com/2022/10/oskar-lange-neoclassical-marxism-limits-of-capitalism-economic-theory

Kowalik, T. (1990). Lange-Lerner Mechanism. In: Eatwell, J., Milgate, M., Newman, P. (eds). Problems of the Planned Economy. Palgrave Macmillan.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-20863-0_21

on Joseph Schumpeters concept of Creative Destruction:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction

Shaikh, A. (2016). Capitalism. Competition, Conflict, Crises. Oxford Academic.

https://academic.oup.com/book/1464

Kornai, J. (1980). “Hard” and “Soft” Budget Constraint. Acta Oeconomica, 25(3/4), 231–245.