Popular Economy. A means of production that strives to develop

Abstract

This article proposes an institutional path of development of the Popular Economy (PE). It’s based on the fact that, on the one hand, it is the main form of work in the popular sectors of Argentina and, on the other, on the irreversibility of its expansive character due to the chronic insufficiency of employment in financial capitalism. The PE is understood here as an economic, political and ethical statement gestated in the  materiality of a working subject of popular origin who invented a new self-organized mode of production, in which popular knowledge and the human condition are vindicated. An informal productive form for the market economy and that in argentina is imbricated with social policy. However, its self-organization makes visible the possibility of a new institutional horizon to properly value its contribution to a national development project.