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4. Freedom and Diversity: The Anticapitalist Revolution

Author : Giulio Sapelli

Published in: Beyond Capitalism

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Abstract

Nowadays the debate on the fate of the world economy increasingly includes a discussion of “natural rights to property”: the unwritten law embodied in history through the life experiences of communities that were once described as “primitive”. They have been gradually surrounded, more than incorporated, by the capitalist market and by societies such as the one in which we live.

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Footnotes
1
R. C. Clark, The Four Stage of Capitalism. Reflections on Investment Management Treatises, in “Harvard Law Review”, n. 94, 561, 1981 and The Interdisciplinary Studies of Legal Evolution, “Yale Law Journal”, issues 90, 1981.
 
2
H. Hansmann and R. Kraakman, The End of History of Corporate Law, in “Georgetown Law Journal”, issue 89, 2001 and then reproduced in in J. Gordon and M. Roe (eds), “Convergence and Persistence in Corporate Governance”, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2004.
 
3
Particularly thanks to H. Hansmann, The Ownership of the Enterprise, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1996.
 
4
B. Jossa, La teoria economica delle cooperative di produzione e la possibile fine del capitalismo, Giappichelli, Turin, 2005.
 
5
F. Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man, Free Press, New York, 1992.
 
6
H. Hansmann, How Close is the End of History? in “Journal of Corporation Law”, issue 31, 2006, p. 746.
 
7
Ibid.
 
8
I refer firstly to H. Hansmann, Response to Review Essay of “The Ownership of Enterprise”. Non-profit Organization in Perspective, “Non-profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly”, issue 1, March 2000.
 
9
The most exemplary model of this theoretical excrescence, which was destined to pass into common belief with consequences similar to that of weapons of mass destruction (cognitive and behavioural), can be seen in M. Jensen and W. Meckling, Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Cost and Ownership Structure, in “Journal of Financial Economics”, issue 3, 1976.
 
10
R. Garruccio, Managerialismo e antimanagerialismo. Trasformazioni culturali tra novecento e anni duemila, in “Itinerari d’ impresa”, issue 11, 2007.
 
11
G. Sapelli, La crisi economica mondiale. Dieci considerazioni, Postfazione di G. De Lucia Lumeno, Boringhieri, Turin, 2009.
 
12
M. Weber, Economia e società, vol. I, Edizioni di Comunità, Milan, pp. 127–128.
 
13
H. Hansmann: Cooperative Firms in Theory and Practice, in “Finnish Journal of Business Economy”, n. 1, 1999, p. 397.
 
14
G. Sapelli, Introduzione, to A. Salsano, “Il dono nel mondo dell’ utile”, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 2008, pp. 6–17 e G. Sapelli, A dadiva na grande impresa capitalistica: trasformacao e reactualizacao, in J.V. Serrao, M.de Avelar Pinheiro, M.de Fatima Sa e M. Ferreira, “Desenvolvimento Economico e Mudanca Social. Portugal nos ultimos dois séculos. Homenagem a Miriam Halperin Pereira”, Imprensa de Ciencias Sociais, Lisboa, 2009, pp. 207–226.
 
15
G. Hardin, The Tragedy of the Commons, in Science, December 13, 1968.
 
16
A fine far-sighted profile of the hypostatisation of “convergent” philosophy in M. Hollis, Models of Man. Philosophical Thoughts on Social Actions, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1977.
 
17
G. Sapelli, Alternatives to marginalization: new forms of social action in Mediterranean towns, in “Journal of Southern Europe and Balkans”, vol. 2, n. 2, November 2000.
 
18
E. Ostrom, Governing the Commons. The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990.
 
19
For some essential reading, see E. Ostrom and J. Walker (eds), Trust and Reciprocità: Interdisciplinary Lessons from Experimental Research, Russel Sage Foundation, New York, 2003. M. Weber, S. Kopelman, D. M. Messing, A Conceptual Review of Social Dilemmas: Applying a Logic of Appropriateness, in “Personality and Social Psychology Review”, n. 8, 2004.
 
20
M. Van Vugt, Averting the Tragedy of the Commons, “Forthcoming Paper University of Kent”, p. 5.
 
Literature
Many of the topics covered here can be found in G. De Lucia Lumeno, G. Sapelli, La rivoluzione è imminente: faremo comunque in tempo a prenderci un caffè, Cantagalli, Siena, 2012.
R. C. Clark, The Four Stage of Capitalism. Reflections on Investment Management Treatises, in “Harvard Law Review”, n. 94, 561, 1981 and The Interdisciplinary Studies of Legal Evolution, “Yale Law Journal”, issues 90, 1981.
H. Hansmann and R. Kraakman, The End of History of Corporate Law, in “Georgetown Law Journal”, issue 89, 2001 and then reproduced in in J. Gordon and M. Roe (eds), “Convergence and Persistence in Corporate Governance”, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2004.
Particularly thanks to H. Hansmann, The Ownership of the Enterprise, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1996.
B. Jossa, La teoria economica delle cooperative di produzione e la possibile fine del capitalismo, Giappichelli, Turin, 2005.
F. Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man, Free Press, New York, 1992.
H. Hansmann, How Close is the End of History? in “Journal of Corporation Law”, issue 31, 2006, p. 746.
H. Hansmann, Response to Review Essay of “The Ownership of Enterprise”. Non-profit Organization in Perspective, “Non-profit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly”, issue 1, March 2000.
M. Jensen and W. Meckling, Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Cost and Ownership Structure, in “Journal of Financial Economics”, issue 3, 1976.
R. Garruccio, Managerialismo e antimanagerialismo. Trasformazioni culturali tra novecento e anni duemila, in “Itinerari d’ impresa”, issue 11, 2007.
G. Sapelli, La crisi economica mondiale. Dieci considerazioni, Postfazione di G. De Lucia Lumeno, Boringhieri, Turin, 2009.
M. Weber, Economia e società, vol. I, Edizioni di Comunità, Milan, pp. 127–128.
H. Hansmann, Cooperative Firms in Theory and Practice, in “Finnish Journal of Business Economy”, n. 1, 1999, p. 397.
G. Sapelli, Introduzione, to A. Salsano, “Il dono nel mondo dell’ utile”, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 2008, pp. 6–17.
G. Sapelli, A dadiva na grande impresa capitalistica: trasformacao e reactualizacao, in J. V. Serrao, M. de Avelar Pinheiro, M. de Fatima Sa e M. Ferreira, “Desenvolvimento Economico e Mudanca Social. Portugal nos ultimos dois séculos. Homenagem a Miriam Halperin Pereira”, Imprensa de Ciencias Sociais, Lisboa, 2009, pp. 207–226.
M. Hollis, Models of Man. Philosophical Thoughts on Social Actions, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1977.
G. Sapelli, Alternatives to marginalization: new forms of social action in Mediterranean towns, in “Journal of Southern Europe and Balkans”, vol. 2, n. 2, November 2000.
E. Ostrom, Governing the Commons. The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990.
E. Ostrom and J. Walker (eds), Trust and Reciprocità: Interdisciplinary Lessons from Experimental Research, Russel Sage Foundation, New York, 2003.
M. Weber, S. Kopelman, D. M. Messing, A Conceptual Review of Social Dilemmas: Applying a Logic of Appropriateness, in “Personality and Social Psychology Review”, n. 8, 2004.
M. Van Vugt, Averting the Tragedy of the Commons, “Forthcoming Paper University of Kent”, p. 5.
Metadata
Title
Freedom and Diversity: The Anticapitalist Revolution
Author
Giulio Sapelli
Copyright Year
2019
Book
Beyond Capitalism

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-20768-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-20769-4

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20769-4_4