Multidimensional capitalism is an economic frame that treats value as plural — accounting for an exchange across many forms of capital at once, rather than collapsing it into money alone. The term was coined by 📝John Zdanowski in a May 2020 conversation with 📝Brian Swichkow and 📝Jim Goodman.
Where conventional capitalism recognizes a single bottom line, multidimensional capitalism asks an exchange to be legible in several — the financial, but also the natural, intellectual, social, cultural, and spiritual. It is less a system than a lens: a way of seeing economic activity ecologically, as a flow among many kinds of wealth, each of which can be depleted or replenished.
📝One Inc made the lens concrete. Its 📝Types of Capital framework is multidimensional capitalism operationalized — six named forms of value, recorded together in 📝One Ledger through the cooperative's working years. The idea outlasts that implementation: it remains a way of asking, of any economy, what it counts as wealth and what it renders invisible.