Published in NTM
This paper is part of Forum COVID-19: Perspectives in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The novel coronavirus (Sars-CoV-2) poses a huge challenge to the world community. Knowledge about the virus and its properties is limited, but there is a great need to base political and medical decisions on scientific knowledge. This situation is leading to a...
Against the backdrop of proposals to introduce a European unemployment insurance scheme, we study public support for such schemes by conducting a conjoint experiment on support for European unemployment insurance in 13 EU member states. We argue that European-level social policy initiatives and the underlying notions of solidarity cannot be reduced...
The present article analyzes, from the Peruvian experience, the viability of the state contribution to the expansion and the strengthening of the solidarity economic modalities, and, consequently, to its predominance in the whole of the economic order. For this purpose, the evolution of the national regulations referred to this type of organization...
The experiences showed the feasibility and viability of achieving paradigmatic transformations in the economic plane. These are options taken by local and regional actors that allow for the construction of alternatives in full coexistence with the market and the cumulative economic logic. They are experiences with a territorial reference and a degr...
This article presents relevant background concerning the origins, historical inspirations, content and contemporary challenges of economic practices conceptualized as constituents of a Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE). We will consider, in this regard, what it means to introduce the social in the economic. We will propose that an SSE can be unde...
In the rural provinces of southern Santander (Colombia) a social movement has been developed; it is comprised of cooperatives, associations, social corporations and social foundations. The movement originated from various pastoral actions led by Ramón González, a Catholic priest. Various other priests and lay people were also involved in the moveme...
Editorial
In the last two decades, the establishment of an adequate legal framework for the solidarity economy has been one of the central points on its agenda in Brazil. Some progress was made, but obstacles and uncertainties persist to this day, despite the political activism of the social actors involved. In addition to the fact that the solidarity econom...
Al analizar las décadas de pobreza y desigualdad persistentes en América Latina, los autores muestran que las raíces del problema se pueden encontrar en fallas de la teoría económica que apoya las políticas públicas aplicadas en la región. De ahí, el reto de reconstruir la estructura teórica de la economía. Como un enfoque más integrado para enfren...
