The economy of the future must be social and solidary
Since the 1980s, worldwide there have been numerous socioeconomic initiatives driven by ideas that differ from capitalist concepts such as accumulation of wealth, maximizing of profits and consumerism. These new initiatives appear all around the economic cycle: resources management, production, marketing, consumption, the financial system, the distribution of surplus and the circulation of currencies. One of the names most commonly associated with such initiatives is social and solidarity economy. In the future these initiatives may provide an alternative to the current dominant system.
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Jordi Garcia JanéTeacher, writer and regular attendee of conferences on cooperativism, social and solidarity economy, participatory democracy, social innovation, and social alternatives in general. In addition to numerous articles for journals such as Illacrua, Actualitat i Alternatives, Cooperatives de Treball, Cooperació Catalana, Nexe Quaderns d’Autogestió Cooperativa, and the weekly Directa, he is author and co-author of books such as La dimensió cooperativa [The cooperative dimension] (2001, 2006) Economía solidaria y crisis capitalista [Solidarity economy and capitalist crisis] (2010), Democracia económica [Economic democracy] (2001), Adéu capitalisme. 15M-2031 [Goodbye capitalism. 15M-2031] (2012) and Economia solidària per a una Catalunya lliure [Solidarity economy for a free Catalonia] (2014).
He works in cooperative l’Apòstrof and is also actively involved in other cooperatives and social and solidarity economy entities, such as Xarxa d’Economia Solidària (XES).
