Solidarity economy. Towards a plural dimension of economic policy

Journal title HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND POLICY
Author/s Alessandro Morselli
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2025/2
Language English Pages 12 P. 157-168 File size 43 KB
DOI 10.3280/SPE2025-002007
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The aim of this note is to attempt to reconsider the more traditional literature on economic policy, concerning the field of the main mechanisms related to macroeconomic policies. This reading, over time, has undergone various critical observations, as well as evolutionary processes derived from political-cultural and institutional dynamics. Thus the debate is not oriented between the choice of liberalism or interventionism, but rather on the economic-political-social objectives of intervention strategies. The correlations between economic content and the principles of modern democracies are questioned, and the issue of economic and social ethics is raised again. Economic policy prescriptions will be reconsidered in the light of their socio-economic complexity, and the result of the reflection will be interpreted by a significant evolution of the dimension of economic policy, considering the dynamics of the solidarity economy.

Keywords: solidarity economy, economic and social ethics, economic policy, solidarity

Jel codes: B5, B15, P1, P16

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Alessandro Morselli, Solidarity economy. Towards a plural dimension of economic policy in "HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND POLICY" 2/2025, pp 157-168, DOI: 10.3280/SPE2025-002007