Social economics

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The Social Economics is the science of the activities in the Society for the direct transport of the welfare of individuals and the community. (Wendt 2003, p. 16) It deals with the institutions (organizations, services and facilities) of the social economy and the activities in the community and publicly organized and also privately-commercially provided care for people in connection with their self-care for coping and solution of social, health and other wellbeing problems. In economic terms, it is about the allocation of the means that are used in the social benefit system and the dispositions that are made inside and outside of it for the purpose of producing and maintaining welfare. In this sense, the economy of public, social and personal services of general interest is the general subject of social economics . In theory and research, it is devoted to the way in which resources are developed and used that serve the objective of social welfare, and how the actors in formal and informal service provision work together rationally.

Topics in social economics include:

  • personal and family welfare production and their contribution to overall economic performance
  • the services in Community self-help (eg. as in social cooperatives) and free-non-profit charitable organizations are provided
  • the allocation and distribution of funds that count towards the social budget of the state and municipalities or are administered by the social service providers and used in social and health care
  • the management of the processes in which social problems are dealt with and social support is provided ( social management ).

Social economics also represents an economics of social work and social security systems . It deals with their rationality in dealing with the available (scarce) resources. Your research area includes the economics of personal, family and community coping with social issues. In terms of the history of science, there is a reference to the old economics (oikonomia) of the "whole house", now transferred to the area of ​​public social care.

literature

  • Wendt, Wolf Rainer: Social Economics. Basics and perspectives. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2002. ISBN 3789081132
  • Wendt, Wolf Rainer: Social economy - a system. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2003. ISBN 3832903496
  • Wendt, Wolf Rainer: The social maintenance of welfare. Elements of social economics. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011. ISBN 978-3-8329-7000-0