Social Economy

Social Economy
Basic Information
Aliases	Cooperative Capitalism
Alignments	Non-Quadrant (In theory)  Center-LibLeft (Usually)  Capitalists (Some) Market Socialists (Many)  Liberals  Socially Centrist
Ideological Influences
Influenced by	Cooperative Movement Liberal Socialism Humanistic Capitalism Social Democracy (Some) Environmentalism (Some) Utopic Socialism
Character Information
Likes	cooperatives, small and medium sized businesses, mutualism
Dislikes	laissez-faire capitalism, centrally planned economies

Social Economy is a generally Center-LibLeft ideology that advocates for the establishment of enterprises such as cooperatives, mutuals, associations, foundations, social enterprises and paritarian institutions, all under a Capitalistic system, as it doesn't necessarily have a revolution as an objective.

Characteristics

Enterprises in a social economy share common values and features:

• Primacy of the Individual and the Social objective over capital
• Voluntary and open membership
• Democratic governance
• Combination of interests of members/users and/or the general interest
• Defence and application of the principles of solidarity and responsibility
• Autonomous management and independence from public authorities, though cross-sector collaboration is common.
• Reinvestment of at least most of the profits to carry out sustainable development objectives, services of interest to members or of general interest
  

Social economy enterprises and organisations have different sizes, ranging from SMEs to large companies and groups that are leaders in their markets and operate in all the economic sectors.

How to Draw

Flag of Social Economy

The flag is based on the symbol of Social Economy Europe

1. Draw a ball with Eyes
2. Make it white

You're done.

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Light Blue	#79B3DB	121, 179, 219
	Blue	#025692	2, 86, 146
	White	#FFFFFF	255, 255, 255

Relationships

Friends

• Eco-Social Market Economy - Perfect business partner for our social economy.
• Eco-Cooperativism - Same as above, but even better!
• Economic Democracy - You expand my ideals in a good direction, my dear brother, even if they aren't my cup of tea really

Frenemies

• Capitalism - You exploit workers and consumers, but I still work in your framework and I don't necessarily want to remove you from existence I wouldn't cry if you disappeared today tho

Further Information

Websites

• OECD - Social Economy
• SocialEconomyEU
• European Commission - Proximity and Social Economy

Wikipedia

• Social Economy

Videos

• Social Europe - What is the Social Economy?