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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1-23 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Journal | Review of Social Economy |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 26 Apr 2016 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
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Keywords
- economics
- social enterprise
- public health
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Polanyi’s ‘substantive approach’ to the economy in action? Conceptualising social enterprise as a public health ‘intervention’. / Roy, Michael J.; Hackett, Michelle T.
In: Review of Social Economy, Vol. 75, No. 2, 2017, p. 1-23.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
TY - JOUR
T1 - Polanyi’s ‘substantive approach’ to the economy in action? Conceptualising social enterprise as a public health ‘intervention’
AU - Roy, Michael J.
AU - Hackett, Michelle T.
N1 - Accepted Feb16, non-HEFCE AAM:18m embargo Funding note: Economic and Social Research Council [grant number MR/L003287/1]; Medical Research Council [grant number MR/L003287/1]. Non-compliant with funder policy re PMC embargo. Acceptance from webpage.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - For several decades now, critical public health researchers have highlighted the deleterious effects that pursuing neoliberal policies can have on the ‘causes of the causes’ of poor health and upon growing health inequalities. This paper argues that the conceptual tools of Karl Polanyi can help lend particular insight into this issue. The specific example that this paper focuses upon is the ‘social enterprise’: a form of organisation that combines both social and business objectives. The paper explores, conceptually, whether social enterprises may have the potential to act as one component of a neo-Polanyian countermovement: helping to re-embed the economy back into society, and offering greater recognition for a more comprehensive and socially imbued concept of health. Importantly, this potential is critically examined in the context of neoliberal hegemony, where challenges to the status quo have regularly been met with assimilation, co-option and/or repression.
AB - For several decades now, critical public health researchers have highlighted the deleterious effects that pursuing neoliberal policies can have on the ‘causes of the causes’ of poor health and upon growing health inequalities. This paper argues that the conceptual tools of Karl Polanyi can help lend particular insight into this issue. The specific example that this paper focuses upon is the ‘social enterprise’: a form of organisation that combines both social and business objectives. The paper explores, conceptually, whether social enterprises may have the potential to act as one component of a neo-Polanyian countermovement: helping to re-embed the economy back into society, and offering greater recognition for a more comprehensive and socially imbued concept of health. Importantly, this potential is critically examined in the context of neoliberal hegemony, where challenges to the status quo have regularly been met with assimilation, co-option and/or repression.
KW - economics
KW - social enterprise
KW - public health
U2 - 10.1080/00346764.2016.1171383
DO - 10.1080/00346764.2016.1171383
M3 - Article
VL - 75
SP - 1
EP - 23
JO - Review of Social Economy
JF - Review of Social Economy
SN - 0034-6764
IS - 2
ER -