THE SOCIAL ENGINE OF DEVELOPMENT. THE SOCIAL ECONOMY ENTITIES IN THE ECONOMIC POLICY

Abstract

The author analyses the social economy entities’ role in formulating and implementing economic policy. They cocreate the multisectoral and pluralistic model of the economy and play several roles, including strengthening development infrastructure (as watchdogs, supporting local entrepreneurship), satisfying the needs of consumers (e.x. products of the leisure markets), carrying out the job activation programmes for the underprivileged groups. The author analyses the social economy sector’s scale of development and the areas of their activity. He underlines the expected growth of its role in many domains due to specific market tendencies (e.x. individualisation of consumers’ needs) and pluralisation of the economy, which means the emergence of market players characterised by the differentiated structure of ownership in many types of sectoral markets