Deliberation a key for rethinking economic: the example of the solidarity economy

Abstract

What is solidarity economy? This question, central, allows keeping the question of the scope of the economy. So, this text tackles, in a more global approach of deconstruction of the orthodox economics and the construction of one new paradigm of solidarity economy, the deliberalism. To understand this approach, it is necessary to return to our starting point: the economics is one of the components of the democratic society (the two others being politics and symbolism). From then, the economics is not any more a mathematical science studying the allocation of the rare resources, but a social science analysing the monetary exchanges. In this theoretical frame, the diversity of the researches in solidarity economy is an asset. This diversity opens heuristic tracks allowing renewing profoundly the socio economic analysis.

Keywords

• delberation
• solidarity economy
• democracy
• paradigm