Solidarity economy based social markets as solidarity cooperation networks. Analysis of the Basque social market

Abstract

The solidarity economy constitutes different socioeconomic and practical realities from a critical perspective with the capitalist economy. And within this, the social market is the central strategy recently developed for its expansion. Social market aims to strengthen relations between the different agents that work and consume in the logic of solidarity eco¬nomy, around the relations of production, distribution, consumption and financing based on solidarity, reciprocity and social justice. In this article we will complement the social market with contributions from the theory of solidarity cooperation networks of the Brazilian philoso¬pher and economist Euclides A. Mance. Finally, we will apply these theoretical lessons in the Basque Country’s social market, since the direction it has taken in recent years is in line with different elements of the Brazilian author’s theory.