Prawne sposoby określenia zjawiska ekonomii społecznej

• Authors: Szafrański Adam

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Legal methods of determining the social economy phenomenon

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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Social economy is a phenomenon related to a civil society, not a legal construct. As such, it can be observed using statistical methods. The results of the research, however, are not satisfactory, as the proper measurement criteria have not been created yet. However, there is no doubt that the social economy is now part of the social reality. The representatives of social sciences have tried to describe this phenomenon. The author summarizes over 15 years of discussions on the basic concepts of social economy, social economy entities and social enterprise. It hypothesizes that the first of these concepts can be described using four criteria: normative, institutional, sectoral and local. Moreover, he believes that the understanding of social economy entities and social enterprises is not obvious and constitutes a postulate rather than a description of reality. The first government project on the social economy comes from 2011, the second from 2021. The author describes each of them and then criticizes them. The analysis ends with the conclusion that the definitions of the social economy, social economy entity and social enterprise should be simple, refer to natural language and doctrinal findings. The author uses the method in which he refers to the state of knowledge about social reality, included in public statistics, then analyzes the existing terminological findings in the doctrine and included in draft normative acts, in order to finally propose his own clarifications. He concludes that the social economy is something that really occurs in economic life. Therefore, the law should refer to it on the basis of the existing conceptual framework. Therefore, the social economy should be understood as part of economic life, but with social goals, and a social enterprise should be understood as an entrepreneur pursuing statutory social goals.

• Publisher: Kancelaria Prezesa Rady Ministrów
• Journal: Przegląd Legislacyjny
• Year: 2022
• Issue: PL 4 (122)/2022
• Pages: 8-39

Contributors

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Szafrański Adam

• Uniwersytet Warszawski - University of Warsaw