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


Shownotes

Aaron at Cornell University:
<a href='https://cals.cornell.edu/people/aaron-benanav'>https://cals.cornell.edu/people/aaron-benanav</a>

Aaron’s personal website:
<a href='https://www.aaronbenanav.com/'>https://www.aaronbenanav.com/</a>

Access to Aaron's paywalled publications:
<a href='https://www.aaronbenanav.com/papers'>https://www.aaronbenanav.com/papers</a>

Mailing List to join the Movement for Multi-Dimensional Economics:
<a href='https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeUF7MZ2jQJXY_wHKn5xSIo-_L0tkMO-SG079sa5lGhRJTgqg/viewform'>https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeUF7MZ2jQJXY_wHKn5xSIo-_L0tkMO-SG079sa5lGhRJTgqg/viewform</a>

Benanav, A. (2025). Beyond Capitalism—1. New Left Review, Issue 153, 65–128.
<a href='https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii153/articles/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-1'>https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii153/articles/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-1</a>

Benanav, A. (2025). Beyond Capitalism—2. New Left Review, Issue 154, 97–143.
<a href='https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii154/articles/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-2'>https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii154/articles/aaron-benanav-beyond-capitalism-2</a>

Benanv, A. (2020). Automation and the Future of Work. Verso.
<a href='https://www.versobooks.com/products/2682-automation-and-the-future-of-work'>https://www.versobooks.com/products/2682-automation-and-the-future-of-work</a>
on economic stagnation, see especially chapter 3, “In the Shadow of Stagnation”.

on Marx’s concept of the Value-Form:
<a href='https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/appendix.htm'>https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/appendix.htm</a>

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.
<a href='https://www.versobooks.com/products/817-a-history-of-the-world-in-seven-cheap-things'>https://www.versobooks.com/products/817-a-history-of-the-world-in-seven-cheap-things</a>

on the abstract domination of capitalism:
Postone, M. (1993). Time, Labor and Social Domination. A Reinterpretation of Marx’s Critical Theory. Cambridge University Press.
<a href='https://files.libcom.org/files/Moishe%20Postone%20-%20Time,%20Labor,%20and%20Social%20Domination.pdf'>https://files.libcom.org/files/Moishe%20Postone%20-%20Time,%20Labor,%20and%20Social%20Domination.pdf</a>
Mau, S. (2023). Mute Compulsion. A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital. Verso.
<a href='https://www.versobooks.com/products/2759-mute-compulsion'>https://www.versobooks.com/products/2759-mute-compulsion</a>

Leipold, B. (2024). Citizen Marx. Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought. Princeton University Press.
<a href='https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691205236/citizen-marx'>https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691205236/citizen-marx</a>

on GDP (Gross Domestic Product):
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product</a>

on the Five-Year Plans in the Soviet Union:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-year_plans_of_the_Soviet_Union'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-year_plans_of_the_Soviet_Union</a>

Katsenelinboigen, A. (1977). Coloured Markets in the Soviet Union. Soviet Studies. Vol. 29, No.1. 62-85.
<a href='https://www.jstor.org/stable/150728'>https://www.jstor.org/stable/150728</a>

Uvalić, M. (2018). The Rise and Fall of Market Socialism in Yugoslavia.
<a href='https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331223694_The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Market_Socialism_in_Yugoslavia'>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331223694_The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Market_Socialism_in_Yugoslavia</a>

on Friedrich Hayek:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek</a>

Hayek, F. A. (1945). The Use of Knowledge in Society. The American Economic Review, 35(4), 519–530.
<a href='https://www.jstor.org/stable/1809376'>https://www.jstor.org/stable/1809376</a>

on the Pareto Optimum:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency</a>

on Rational Choice Theory:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_choice_model'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_choice_model</a>

on Behavioral Economics:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_economics</a>

on Otto Neurath:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Neurath'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Neurath</a>

on Neurath’s technocratic tendencies:
<a href='https://jacobin.com/2023/02/technocratic-socialism-otto-neurath-utopianism-capitalism'>https://jacobin.com/2023/02/technocratic-socialism-otto-neurath-utopianism-capitalism</a>

on Joseph Raz:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Raz'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Raz</a>

on Utilitarianism:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism</a>

on the Capability Approach by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_approach'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_approach</a>

on the Human Development Index (HDI):
<a href='https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/human-development-index#/indicies/HDI'>https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/human-development-index#/indicies/HDI</a>

on the Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs):
<a href='https://sdgs.un.org/goals'>https://sdgs.un.org/goals</a>

on Multi-Objective Optimization:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-objective_optimization'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-objective_optimization</a>

Saros, D. E. (2014). Information Technology and Socialist Construction. The End of Capital and the Transition to Socialism. Routledge.
<a href='https://www.routledge.com/Information-Technology-and-Socialist-Construction-The-End-of-Capital-and-the-Transition-to-Socialism/Saros/p/book/9780415742924'>https://www.routledge.com/Information-Technology-and-Socialist-Construction-The-End-of-Capital-and-the-Transition-to-Socialism/Saros/p/book/9780415742924</a>

on Neoclassical Economics:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoclassical_economics'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoclassical_economics</a>

on Citizen Assemblies and Sortition:
<a href='https://www.sortitionfoundation.org/'>https://www.sortitionfoundation.org/</a>

on John Stuart Mill:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill</a>

Mill, J. S. (2011). On Liberty. Cambridge University Press.
<a href='https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/on-liberty/62EC27F1E66E2BCBA29DDCD5294B3DE0'>https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/on-liberty/62EC27F1E66E2BCBA29DDCD5294B3DE0</a>

McCabe, H. (2021). John Stuart Mill, Socialist. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
<a href='https://www.mqup.ca/john-stuart-mill--socialist-products-9780228005742.php'>https://www.mqup.ca/john-stuart-mill--socialist-products-9780228005742.php</a>

on Degrowth:
<a href='https://degrowth.info/'>https://degrowth.info/</a>

on Nick Land and Right Accelerationism:
<a href='https://youtu.be/lrOVKHg_PJQ?si=Q4oFbaM1p4fhcWP0'>https://youtu.be/lrOVKHg_PJQ?si=Q4oFbaM1p4fhcWP0</a>

on Left Accelerationism:
<a href='https://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/14/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/'>https://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/14/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/</a>

Devine, P. (2002). Participatory Planning through Negotiated Coordination. Science & Society, Vol. 66, No. 1, 72-85.
<a href='https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/10.1521/siso.66.1.72.21001?journalCode=siso'>https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/abs/10.1521/siso.66.1.72.21001?journalCode=siso</a>

on Oskar R. Lange:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_R._Lange'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_R._Lange</a>

on Lange’s neoclassical approach to Socialism:
<a href='https://jacobin.com/2022/10/oskar-lange-neoclassical-marxism-limits-of-capitalism-economic-theory'>https://jacobin.com/2022/10/oskar-lange-neoclassical-marxism-limits-of-capitalism-economic-theory</a>

Kowalik, T. (1990). Lange-Lerner Mechanism. In: Eatwell, J., Milgate, M., Newman, P. (eds). Problems of the Planned Economy. Palgrave Macmillan.
<a href='https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-20863-0_21'>https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-20863-0_21</a>

on Joseph Schumpeters concept of Creative Destruction:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction</a>

Shaikh, A. (2016). Capitalism. Competition, Conflict, Crises. Oxford Academic.
<a href='https://academic.oup.com/book/1464'>https://academic.oup.com/book/1464</a>

Kornai, J. (1980). “Hard” and “Soft” Budget Constraint. Acta Oeconomica, 25(3/4), 231–245.
<a href='https://www.jstor.org/stable/40728773'>https://www.jstor.org/stable/40728773</a>

on the Cobb-Douglas Production Function:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobb%E2%80%93Douglas_production_function'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobb%E2%80%93Douglas_production_function</a>

on Adam Smith:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith</a>

Lutosch, H. (2025). Embracing the Small Stuff. Caring for Children in a Liberated Society. In: Groos, J., & Sorg, C. (Eds.). (2025). Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press.
<a href='https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction'>https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction</a>

Hahnel, R. (2021). Democratic Economic Planning. Routledge.
<a href='https://www.routledge.com/Democratic-Economic-Planning/Hahnel/p/book/9781032003320'>https://www.routledge.com/Democratic-Economic-Planning/Hahnel/p/book/9781032003320</a>

Cockshott, P. & Cottrell, A. (1993). Towards a New Socialism. Spokesman.
<a href='https://users.wfu.edu/cottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pdf'>https://users.wfu.edu/cottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pdf</a>

on Universal Basic Services (UBS):
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_services'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_services</a>
<a href='https://autonomy.work/ubs-hub/'>https://autonomy.work/ubs-hub/</a>

Fraser, N. & Sorg, C. (2025). Socialism, Planning and the Relativity of Dirt. In: Groos, J., & Sorg, C. (Eds.). (2025). Creative Construction. Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press.
<a href='https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction'>https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction</a>

on Milton Friedman:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman</a>

on John Maynard Keynes:
<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maynard_Keynes</a>

Aaron on what to learn from radical Keynesianism for a transitionary Program:
Benanav, A. & Henwood, D. (2025). Behind the News. Beyond the Capitalist Economy w/ Aaron Benanav.
<a href='https://open.spotify.com/episode/2diIiFkkM4x7MoZhi9e0tx'>https://open.spotify.com/episode/2diIiFkkM4x7MoZhi9e0tx</a>

on Socializing Finance:
McCarthy, M. A. (2025). The Master's Tools. How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It). Verso.
<a href='https://www.versobooks.com/products/755-the-master-s-tools'>https://www.versobooks.com/products/755-the-master-s-tools</a>



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If you are interested in democratic economic planning, these resources might be of help:

Democratic planning – an information website
<a href='https://www.democratic-planning.com/'>https://www.democratic-planning.com/</a>

Sorg, C. & Groos, J. (eds.)(2025). Rethinking Economic Planning. Competition & Change Special Issue Volume 29 Issue 1.
<a href='https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1'>https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1</a>

Groos, J. & Sorg, C. (2025). Creative Construction - Democratic Planning in the 21st Century and Beyond. Bristol University Press. [for a review copy, please contact: <a href='mailto:amber.lanfranchi@bristol.ac.uk'>amber.lanfranchi[at]bristol.ac.uk</a>]
<a href='https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction'>https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/creative-construction</a>

International Network for Democratic Economic Planning
<a href='https://www.indep.network/'>https://www.indep.network/</a>

Democratic Planning Research Platform:
<a href='https://www.planningresearch.net/'>https://www.planningresearch.net/</a>
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