Self-management Practice

Self-management is an aspect of social life free from authoritarianism and hierarchy, an antibody against selfishness and profit seeking a way to product and project outside the State system.

Self-management, meaning a system of social organization characterized by forms of non-hierarchical cooperation, if generalized is a transformation of the socio-economic structure immediately applicable in whatever time or space. With an interdisciplinary approach, an economist and a historian demonstrate – by theory and also by means of experimental economics – how it is possible to substitute the I-rationality (which is based on competition and self-interest) with a more and more accepted we-rationality (which is based on solidarity and mutual aid). This unusual historical and economic analysis of self-management confirms what libertarians have sustained for one hundred and fifty years, that is the idea of a cooperative and altruistic society is not mere utopia, but a feasible project. A project which might link the many self-managerial ideas of growing acceptance in modern society – libertarian practice, management of commons goods, degrowth, civil economics and so on – giving life to a vast movement capable to practise self-management in its thousand aspects, here and now.

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