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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; The Social Economy, the State and the City; Rolling Back and Rolling Out; Disembedding and Re-embedding; Social and Solidarity; Structure of the Argument; 2 The Rules of the Game; Introduction; Disembedding the Market; Co-ordinating the Commons; Problems of Co-ordination; Social Enterprise Markets; Reassembling the Market; Conclusion; 3 Urban Politics and Alternative Economics; Introduction; Neoliberalism and Its Limits; Countermoves and Resistance

The Social Base of Solidarity EconomicsThe Mode of Interest Mediation; Scale and the Neighbourhood as a Site of Struggle; Assembling the Social; Conclusion; 4 Social and Solidarity Economics; Introduction; Distribution and Modes of Exchange; The Solidarity Economy and the Social Economy; Solidarity in Economic Practice; Social Entrepreneurship; The Social Base of Economics; Work Integration, Workfare and Empowerment; Non-monetised Trading; Barriers and Cognitive Traps; Conclusion; 5 Enterprises, Legitimacy and Pursuit of the Social; Introduction; Defining Social Enterprises

Logics, Legitimacies and PressuresCapture, Co-option and Resistance; Mission Drift; Communities, Assets and Local Accumulation; Conclusion; 6 Actually Existing Solidarity Economies; Introduction; Basque Solidarity and Mondragon; Bristol and the Creative Commons; Québec and Solidarity Infrastructure; Red Bologna; Occupation in São Paulo; Peacebuilding, Social Economics and the Contested City; Conclusion; 7 Scale, Replication and Money; Introduction; Scaling, Innovation and Social Value; Scaling-up; The Social Life of Money; Social Finance; Structure of the Sector; Supply and Demand for Finance

Diversification of SupplyCommunity Development Finance Initiatives (CDFIs); Co-ordination and Finance Schemes; Conclusion; 8 Conclusions; Introduction; The Social Base of Value; The Competitive Environment; Scale, Competition and the State; Network Power and Co-ordinating Institutions; Junctures, Overflows and Affecting Mechanisms; Knowledge and Learning; Skills; Profit Destination; Conclusion; Index

Social Economics and the Solidarity City explores the impact and potential of the social economy as a site of urban struggle, political mobilization and community organization. The search for alternatives to the neoliberal logic governing contemporary cities has often focused on broad and ill-defined political, social and environmental movements. These alternatives sometimesfail to connect with the lived realities of the city or to change the lives of those exploited in neoliberal restructuring. This book seeks to understand the capacity of the social economy to revitalize urban ethics, local practices and tangible political alterity. Providing a critical account of the social economy and its place in urban and state restructuring, this book draws on a range of international cases to argue that the social economy can be made a transformative space. Evaluating community enterprises, social finance, and solidarity economics, author Brendan Murtagh maps the possibilities, contradictions and tactics of moving the rhetoric of the just city into local and global action.

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