Small and Medium Entrepreneurship in Ordoliberalism and Social Liberalism Cover Image

Mała i średnia przedsiębiorczość w koncepcji ordoliberalizmu i liberalizmu społecznego
Small and Medium Entrepreneurship in Ordoliberalism and Social Liberalism

Author(s): Grzegorz Szulczewski
Subject(s): Business Economy / Management, Micro-Economics, Sociology
Published by: Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie
Keywords: SME; liberalism; A. Rüstow; F. Zweig; social market economy

Summary/Abstract: The paper was inspired by a debate between entrepreneurs and social scientists on the problem of promotion of local SMEs. In this context, the aim of the paper is to demonstrate why such a promotion is not successful. Moreover, in the paper I attempt to form a critique of the ideologies that disregard SMEs (Darwinism, Marxism and neoliberalism) and to present two liberal ideologies alternative to neoliberalism: ordoliberalism and social liberalism, which may constitute a good starting point for bringing back the importance of SMEs into public life.

  • Issue Year: 19/2014
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 31-50
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish