| Аннотация | The paper discusses some features of the source of social entrepreneurship as a new form of business organization, aimed at implementing social objectives in the context of strengthening neoliberal
trends in economic policy and economic theory, rather than at maximizing the owners’ profit. It is demonstrated that, remaining within the framework of the neoliberal ideology which retains its influence
in the economic science, it is impossible to create an adequate theory explaining the importance of social entrepreneurship in the context of the process of changing paradigms of economic relations, since under
the influence of this ideology false stereotypes are established, which is accompanied by falsification of
historical facts. In this context it seems that the methodology of political economy, taking into account the current trends in the transformation of socio-economic relations and the deviation of the trend of
social development from the framework of the formally preserved, but declining neoliberal paradigm, is very popular, especially since its problem areas include issues such as the distinction between individual
and social forms of production, the relations between the necessary and surplus product, the distribution of surplus value (in case of its occurrence), the issues of individualization and socialization of economic phenomena, the correlation between market and non-market production areas and distribution of the final product, the issue of recognizing the social significance of the result of individual labor. In
the present paper these methodological principles are applied for analyzing a complex, contradictory
phenomenon of social entrepreneurship. The purpose of the research is to justify the need for a political economic approach to studying the main trends in social entrepreneurship development amid limited
theoretical and methodological tools available within the neo-liberal economic theory. This will solve the
following problems: form a completely objective image of its development, determine the true nature of this phenomenon and identify certain features of production method underlying social entrepreneurship.
Since social entrepreneurship is one of the forms of alienation removal, in the context of political economy, assuming the desire for associated social creativity, it can be perceived as one of the tools for transition
from the “kingdom of necessity” to the “kingdom of freedom”, according to K. Marx. |
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