Introduction
Social economy is an almost 200-year-old concept deeply rooted in the social, political, and economic history of Western European countries. However, probably due to its polysemy and its ups and downs during this long history, the concept of social economy has not gained a solid and univocal recognition in the academic circles until it reemerged in the 1980s in France and then in most European countries before it spread elsewhere in Latin and North America and in Asia. With the growing interest for a “third way” resulting from the collapse of state-controlled economies and the rising discontent toward an all liberal and capitalist model, the social economy has aroused great attention from scholars and policy makers for some 20 years. It surely represents an interesting approach for the advocates of the welfare mix and all those who are convinced of the plurality of economy as well as for scholars who stress the need for interdisciplinarity in the social sciences.
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Bidet, E. (2010). Social Economy. In: Anheier, H.K., Toepler, S. (eds) International Encyclopedia of Civil Society. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-93996-4_90
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