According to the Trnasnational Institute, Solidarity Economy "is a dynamics of reciprocity and solidarity which links individual interests to the collective interest" (https://www.tni.org/es/node/6865) but recently I read something about "cofradías" in Spain in the XVI century or so, particularly the "cofradía de negros" in Seville, and I found a school of thought called "solidarist economics" applied to the development made by Fr. Heinrich Pesch (XIX century). I can't avoid to find some similarities between all of them (may be we could add Fr. Arizmendarrieta's cooperativism)
Is it just a coincidence or we could trace a line of development from cofradías to solidarity economy? Has anyone read a text about it?
I see a great connect between the two. There surely must be a line of connection joining the two.
Interesting research topic. In ancient, there were not many currently functioning public institutions related to the economy, public finance sector institutions, financial sector institutions, etc. Therefore, what is now referred to as socio-economic policy was almost completely absent in ancient or was conducted differently and in much simpler structures. Therefore, in order to answer the above question, it is necessary to take into account the large above-mentioned differences between the economic reality and the present reality of industrialized social market economies in the era of the fourth technological revolution.
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Dariusz Prokopowicz
Hello,
Yes for sure there is a connection, since Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) dates - de facto - back to Ancient Egypt and then the guilds in the middle ages, with guilds of pyramid workers uniting to not only protect their life and health with respect to working conditions, but also associate to organise themselves with economic mutual benefit arrangements (see Bennet, J. (1981): La mutualité française: des origines à la Révolution de 1789. Patrimoines. Paris : CIEM, p. 19; 27-28; 42; 67-68). See also SAK B. in Z'GuG (pp. 106-108): https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/2701-4193-2021-1/z-gug-zeitschrift-fuer-gemeinwirtschaft-und-gemeinwohl-jahrgang-44-2021-heft-1 . You could precise your research question and ask CIRIEC's documentation Centre (http://www.ciriec.uliege.be/en/documentation/cedoc/ ). + see also the UNTFSSE Knowledge Hub (https://unsse.org/ ), although it is not specialised in history.