BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/Amsterdam X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:VEVENT UID:0-22@visions-for-the-future.sites.uu.nl DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260119T153000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260119T170000 DTSTAMP:20260119T161306Z URL:https://visions-for-the-future.sites.uu.nl/events/speaker-series-with- dr-aaron-benanav/ SUMMARY:Speaker Series with Dr. Aaron Benanav DESCRIPTION:\nBeyond Capitalism: Framework for a Multidimensional Economics \n\n\n\nIf you would like to receive calendar invites with the links to al l our speaker series events and receive updates on our project please emai l us at a.c.moiteirodasneves@uu.nl. \;\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.co m/watch?v=YMVCt39jeBM\n\n\n\n\nYou can read more about Aaron Benanav's acc ount of a multidimensional economics in two published articles in the New Left Review\, or in Benanav's website. \n\n\n\nAbout the session: This tal k presents an alternative socio-economic system—what I call a multidimen sional economy—grounded in the premise that modern societies pursue mult iple\, irreducible goals that cannot be collapsed into a single universal equivalent without distortion. At its core is a set of democratically gove rned investment bodies that allocate resources across competing social pri orities—such as decarbonization\, improving care infrastructures\, techn ological development\, and raising work quality—under explicit budget co nstraints. Firms operate not as profit-maximizing entities but as worker-r un organizations. Markets continue to play a role in coordinating producti on and consumption\, but their outcomes are politically mediated through i nvestment decisions that shape the direction of economic development. Rath er than promising social harmony\, this system treats conflict over econom ic futures as unavoidable and productive. It starts from the view that soc ieties committed to multiple social and ecological values require economic structures capable of surfacing conflicts among these goals and providing legitimate ways of deciding among them. The multidimensional economy is d esigned to make such trade-offs visible\, contestable\, and collectively b inding. The talk outlines the key components of this system and argues for its viability as a distinct alternative to both market-centered and techn ocratic planning models.\n\n\n\nAbout the speaker: ​Aaron Benanav is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Development at Cornell Uni versity. As a historian\, sociologist\, and economic and social theorist\, Benanav’s research spans a variety of topics\, including automation and the future of work\, unemployment and underemployment\, histories of soci al and economic development\, critical theory\, and alternative economic s ystems. \;His first book\, Automation and the Future of Work\, was pub lished by Verso in 2020 and has been translated into ten languages. He has also edited a special issue of International Labor and Working-Class Hist ory on the topic of “Workers and Obsolescence.” In addition to academi c journals\, Benanav's writing has appeared in publications such as The Ne w York Times\, The Nation\, The Guardian\, New Statesman\, Boston Review\, New Left Review\, Jacobin\, and Dissent.\n\n\n\nCurrently\, Benanav is wo rking on two new book projects. One project delves into the history and fu ture of economic planning and democracy\, while the other explores the glo bal history of unemployment since 1940. \;\n\n\n\nIf you would like to receive information about the speaker series\, please email Catarina Neve s at a.c.moiteirodasneves@uu.nl. \;\n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251026T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR