ABSTRACT
E. Swyngedouw and Hulgard Moulaert argue that projects involved in the state-market-civic triangle inevitably operate at multiple scales and that transcending place-specificity opens the possibility of more transformative politics for the social economy. David Harvey argues that the financial system is crisis-prone partly because technological change and competition create disequilibrium and partly because it vests independent power in money capitalism. Scaling-up and replicating social and solidarity economy (SSE) practices, and especially social enterprises, is clearly not a simple linear process and involves more than money, especially to maintain solidarity ethics as financial pressures increase with growth. Co-operatives are particularly strong actors, but the SSE sector has still not significantly engaged with centres of economic policy and production, and the SSE is treated as a policy 'add-on'. As A. Nicholls shows, the market is turning to the SSE for new investment platforms and for security, publicity and, for some, deliberate ethical outcomes.
