What the future holds for the social economy?
This is a summary of a keynote given at the OECD on Monday 20 March 2023 at their conference on the social and solidarity economy. The social economy is not new – the world has thousands of examples of coops, mutuals, social enterprises of all kinds, not to mention businesses linked to organised religions, many kinds of commons and much more. Capitalism has never been a monolith – healthy economies always have had some pluralism. But it is a matter of choice and design whe