The hypothesis of this contribution is based on the ambivalent role of social enterprise. In one hand, the social enterprise can be interpreted as an adaptation of neoliberalism in the sense of integrating the social questions, on the other hand, social enterprise can be considered as coming from a social movement perspective as it is mentioned by the solidarity economy framework. This communication is especially dedicated to the explanation of this framework through the contribution of the main authors.
The conceptualization of the solidarity economy is inseparable from an interdisciplinarity enabling one to understand the economy beyond the market and the political beyond the state.
Habermas, for his part, contests the pertinence of the aggregative paradigm of individual preferences and shows the importance of deliberation. Ostrom demonstrates that it is not simply a matter of the formation of opinions but that deliberation can be mobilized as a means of decision in the framework of the activity of a collective. Polanyi and Guerreiro Ramos urge a move away from the reduction of the economy to the market, from which Habermas has not broken free.
Finally, Polanyi and Guerreiro Ramos reject the conceptual anachronism of catallaxy, i.e., the spontaneous order of the market as understood by Hayek, by referring to a plurality of economic principles. They can be complemented with recourse to Habermas as regards the springs of democratic action and to Ostrom for a resistance to marketization that does not turn towards statism.
There is thus a complementarity among all these contributions, through which another conception of governance takes shape. In this communication, a research program based on the authors mentioned above will be presented in such perspective.
9. Social and solidarity economy, civil society and social movements
