La economía global y los emprendimientos sociales

Abstract

In this article, the role which can play social entrepreneurship in the achievement of a fairer global economy is studied. Thus, we start paying attention to the most important problems observed in the global economic system and the influence which is exerted on them by the existing distance among ethics and economics. Secondly, the general features of the entrepreneurial activity boosted by the global economic system are studied and, later, it is explained how a specific kind of entrepreneurship, such as social entrepreneurship, can promote a change in the current economic paradigm to build a fairer global economic system. Lately, based on data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor about entrepreneurial activity in the world, an empirical analysis is carried out in order to show some existing differences between market entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship. The final aims of this work are, on the one hand, to encourage economic authorities to design policies which support the social start-up process and the social business persistence and, on the other hand, to encourage economists of being aware of the importance to teach and research Economics from a different perspective.